EIGE

In general, how often are you involved in caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends aged 75 years or over outside of work? (% of respondents, 18+ population) ta_timeuse_careact_eldrldis__eqls_famcareactiv__ge75

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

Calculations are based on microdata from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), coordinated by Eurofound. The survey aims to represent the population of all residents in a survey country aged 18 or older.

The question considered is question Q42e from the 2016 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2016: In general, how often are you involved in caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends aged 75 or over? 1 Every day; 2 Several days a week; 3 Once or twice a week; 4 Less often; 5 Never.

This question was only asked in 2016, therefore no time series data are available.

For each response category, the indicator is calculated as the percentage of 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 EQLS surveys to be included in the database was based on the following criteria:

  • Additionality: EQLS questions were included where they provided additional information compared to other data (such as Eurostat data) included in the database;
  • Policy & research relevance: EQLS questions were included where they were judged to be highly policy relevant and/or showed substantial gender variation in data;
  • Recent data: EQLS questions were included only if they were last asked less than ten years ago; and
  • Sufficient sample size: EQLS questions were included only if there was a sufficient number of respondents to allow for response breakdown by EU Member States and gender.
Keywords:
care activities, caring, couple, disabilities, disability, disabled, elderly, elderly/disabled, family, family type, incapacity, lone parent, old age, old-age, older, population, single-person, time use, work
EU28
BE
BG
CZ
DK
DE
EE
IE
EL
ES
FR
HR
IT
CY
LV
LT
LU
HU
MT
NL
AT
PL
PT
RO
SI
SK
FI
SE
UK
ME
MK
AL
RS
TR
2016
EU28
4.4
BE
5.4
BG
2.3
CZ
1.6
DK
1.7
DE
2.3
EE
5.8
IE
4.6
EL
5.5
ES
5.6
FR
7.5
HR
3.4
IT
4.2
CY
3.7
LV
8.7
LT
5.9
LU
4
HU
2.3
MT
6.1
NL
2.1
AT
2.5
PL
4.6
PT
3.1
RO
6.3
SI
5
SK
2.6
FI
4.1
SE
0.8
UK
5.3
ME
9.2
MK
4.3
AL
7.1
RS
5.5
TR
2.5

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