EIGE

How many hours per day do you spend on caring for and/or educating your children, grandchildren? (% breakdown of responses by hours, 15+ workers) ta_timeuse_careact_chldrn__ewcs_unpaidworkhours_childp

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Percentage (comparable)
Description:

Calculations are based on microdata from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), coordinated by Eurofound. The survey aims to represent the population of all employed persons aged 15 or older.

The question considered is question Q96c from the 2015 EWCS survey in the EWCS Integrated Data File, 1991-2015: On average, how many hours per day do you spend on caring for and/or educating your children, grandchildren? 1 Up to 2 hours; 2 3 to 4 hours; 3 More than 4 hours.

For each response category, the indicator is calculated as the percentage of employed persons who answered the question using this response category out of all respondents who were asked to respond to this question.

The selection of relevant questions from the EWCS surveys to be included in the database was based on the following criteria:

  • Additionality: EWCS questions were included where they provided additional information compared to other data (such as Eurostat data) included in the database;
  • Policy & research relevance: EWCS questions were included where they were judged to be highly policy relevant and/or showed substantial gender variation in data;
  • Recent data: EWCS questions were included only if they were last asked less than ten years ago; and
  • Sufficient sample size: EWCS questions were included only if there were sufficient number of respondents to allow for response breakdown by EU Member State and gender.
Keywords:
care activities, caring, children, time use
AL
AT
BE
HR
DK
EU28
FI
MK
FR
DE
EL
IE
IT
XK
LU
ME
NL
NO
PT
RS
ES
SE
CH
TR
UK
BG
LV
PL
RO
CY
SK
HU
EE
CZ
SI
MT
LT
2015
2010
2005
2001
AL
40.9
50
AT
30.9
40.4
21.6
BE
41.5
33.6
52.1
HR
54.6
55.1
34.6
DK
30.1
26
25.5
EU28
39
37.5
34.3
FI
42.4
38
49.5
MK
49.4
29.6
FR
33
36
32.5
DE
35.4
46.8
30.3
EL
51
54.4
51.7
IE
34.6
30.7
30.1
IT
37.2
34.7
20.2
XK
58.2
LU
37.2
31.3
24.8
ME
35.7
17.6
NL
33.7
34.5
31.4
NO
27.9
21.3
20
PT
35.2
32.4
34.4
RS
36.1
ES
40.8
31.5
16.4
SE
29.1
32.9
42.8
CH
43.1
27.9
TR
44.9
75.2
59.8
UK
42.8
32.2
37.8
BG
61.2
60.2
56.2
22.1
LV
38.6
47.5
49.9
22.2
PL
57.8
44.5
40.4
23.8
RO
45.9
33.6
38.7
27.1
CY
41
49.4
44.9
29.9
SK
34.7
35.3
49.4
30.4
HU
39.4
42.2
38.7
36.6
EE
44.6
50.9
39.6
41.9
CZ
47.3
41
44
42.6
SI
45
53.9
41.5
48
MT
38.6
36
36
48.1
LT
45.1
36.5
37.1
48.6

Available flags:

b break in time series c confidential
d definition differs, see metadata e estimated
f forecast i see metadata
m imputed n not significant
p provisional r revised
s Eurostat estimate u low reliability
x dropped due to insufficient sample size y unreliable due to small sample size
z not applicable