EIGE

On average, how often do you have direct face-to-face contact with the following persons living outside your household? (% of respondents, 18+ population) ta_timeuse_soclesact_time__eqls_famfacecontact

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 Q38 from the 2016 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2016: On average, how often do you have direct face-to-face contact with the following persons living outside your household? 1 Every day or almost every day; 2 At least once a week; 3 Once or twice a month; 4 Several times a year; 5 Less often; 6 (Don't have such relatives).

This question was modified in 2016. In 2016, it asks respondents about contact with a) Any family members or relatives and b) Any of your friends or neighbours. Prior to 2016, option (a) Any family members or relatives), was disaggregated into three separate options: a) Any of your children; b) Your mother or father and c) Any brother, sister or other relative. As a result of this change, data on the aggregate category "Any family members or relatives" are available only for 2016, and data for the categories "Any of your children; "Your mother or father" and "Any brother, sister or other relative" 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.

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:
couple, family, family type, leisure activities, leisure time, lone parent, population, single-person, time use
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
IS
UK
ME
MK
AL
RS
TR
XK
2016
2011
EU28
44.2
45.2
BE
26.4
27.7
BG
65.4
58.9
CZ
22.7
28.6
DK
41.1
36.2
DE
40.5
41.3
EE
36.9
41.4
IE
57.6
52.8
EL
60.2
60.5
ES
53.3
52
FR
33.3
37.5
HR
58.2
66.4
IT
50.3
47
CY
53.6
53
LV
43.7
47.2
LT
37
50.7
LU
39.5
33.9
HU
33
50.2
MT
43.8
49.6
NL
38.1
32.8
AT
40.4
34.3
PL
41.8
44.3
PT
69.6
57.4
RO
46.7
67.5
SI
48.4
48.7
SK
38.4
33
FI
44.7
51.5
SE
28
37
IS
41.9
UK
50.6
47.6
ME
49.4
73.3
MK
52.2
49.3
AL
57.6
RS
44.3
73.7
TR
26.1
56.7
XK
15.6

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