EIGE

On average, how many hours per week are you involved in any of the following activities outside of paid work? (% breakdown of responses by hours, 18+ population) ta_timeuse_soclesact_time__eqls_famcarehours__perc

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 Q43 from the 2016 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2016: On average, how many hours per week are you involved in any of the following activities outside of paid work? ___ hours.

This question was modified in 2016. In 2016, it asks respondents about the following activities:

  • a) Caring for and/or educating your children;
  • b) Caring for and/or educating your grandchildren;
  • c) Cooking and / or housework;
  • d) Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends under 75 years old and;
  • e) Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends aged 75 or over.

Prior to 2016, options a) Caring for and/or educating your children; and b) Caring for and/or educating your grandchildren, were aggregated into a single question (i.e. "Caring for your children, grandchildren"), although option a) was also available in 2007. In addition, options d) Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends under 75 years old and; e) Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends aged 75 or over, were also aggregated into a single question (i.e. "Caring for elderly or disabled relatives").

As a result of this change, data on the disaggregated categories ("Caring for and/or educating your children"; "Caring for and/or educating your grandchildren"; "Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends under 75 years old" and; "Caring for disabled or infirm family members, neighbours or friends aged 75 or over") are available only for 2016, and data for the aggregated categories ("Caring for your children, grandchildren" and "Caring for elderly or disabled relatives" are only available prior to 2016.

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 asked only to respondents who answered to the preceding question (Q42) that they had been involved at least once a week in any of these activities.

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.
AL
IS
XK
ME
RS
MK
MT
IE
CY
PT
RO
HR
ES
EL
BG
HU
AT
PL
IT
SI
TR
LV
CZ
EU28
DE
LU
EE
LT
BE
SK
UK
FR
NO
NL
FI
DK
SE
2016
2011
2007
AL
23.9
IS
72.9
XK
68.3
ME
23.7
41.1
RS
36.5
42.1
MK
34.3
42.4
27.1
MT
40.4
31.6
32
IE
40.7
45.9
32.4
CY
37.8
32.4
33.2
PT
40.4
40.2
33.7
RO
31.4
38.7
35.3
HR
38.5
45.6
35.6
ES
39.5
41.7
36.1
EL
39.3
40.1
36.2
BG
41.9
49.2
37.5
HU
48.8
51
38
AT
54.7
47.9
38.1
PL
40.8
41.7
38.2
IT
41.7
57.5
38.5
SI
51
50.3
40.3
TR
32.7
30.5
40.4
LV
43.9
46.9
42.1
CZ
55.1
57
44.1
EU28
49.8
52
44.9
DE
53.4
52.1
45.2
LU
54.9
54
45.3
EE
51
47.1
45.9
LT
53.4
47.1
45.9
BE
53
54.7
46.2
SK
57.4
41.4
46.5
UK
57.3
50.7
46.7
FR
55.5
63.9
56.8
NO
58
NL
60
58.7
58.8
FI
66.9
71.5
60.7
DK
71.2
66.5
62
SE
64.6
67.7
64.3

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