EIGE

How many hours per week are you involved in caring for elderly or disabled relatives outside of paid work? (% breakdown of responses by hours, 18+ population) ta_timeuse_careact_eldrldis__eqls_famcarehours__oldp

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 Q37c from the 2012 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2012: On average, how many hours per week are you involved in caring for elderly or disabled relatives outside of paid work? ___ hours.

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. This question was only asked to respondents who answered to the preceding question (Q36c) that they had been involved in caring for elderly or disabled relatives at least once a week.

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, disabilities, disability, disabled, elderly, elderly/disabled, incapacity, old age, old-age, older, relative, relatives, time use, work
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FI
IS
BE
FR
DK
NL
LU
HU
IT
SI
LV
XK
MK
CZ
IE
EU28
HR
DE
LT
UK
ME
AT
BG
EE
CY
ES
TR
SK
RO
PL
PT
EL
MT
RS
NO
2011
2007
SE
86.5
84.9
FI
85.3
84.5
IS
84
BE
81.6
77.3
FR
81.6
72.8
DK
78.7
72
NL
77.2
79.6
LU
75.7
59.7
HU
75.4
71
IT
74.2
63.7
SI
70
64.6
LV
69
58.8
XK
68
MK
67
53.8
CZ
66.9
63
IE
66.3
45.1
EU28
64.5
58.8
HR
63.6
61.4
DE
63.1
60
LT
60.5
59.4
UK
60
50
ME
58
AT
56.9
58.7
BG
54.8
43.5
EE
54.2
71
CY
53
58
ES
50.9
35.9
TR
50
60
SK
48.6
55
RO
46.4
48.6
PL
42.9
50.8
PT
42.7
38.7
EL
42.6
57.3
MT
41.6
45.8
RS
35.4
NO
79.6

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