Provision of Unpaid Care - 5 Categories

Description

A person is a provider of unpaid care if they give any help or support to anyone because of long-term physical or mental health conditions or illnesses, or problems related to old age. This does not include any activities as part of paid employment. Provision of Unpaid care is applicable to people aged 5 and over. As such, this variable reports 'No code required' for the subset of the population where no response was expected.

Variable categories

Showing all 5 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
Provides no unpaid care 1
Provides 1-19 hours unpaid care per week 2
Provides 20-49 hours unpaid care per week 3
Provides 50+ hours unpaid care per week 4
No code required -8