SINGLE MEASURE

Amount of hours spent caring

Sweep Title: 2010 - Carers
Dataset: Survey of Carers in Households (SCH)

Question(s)

About how long do you spend EACH WEEK looking after or helping (NAME OF PERSON CARED FOR) – that is doing the things you’ve mentioned and including time when you just need to be there (apart from when you are asleep/ including time travelling to and from his/her home)?

Response scale

0-9 hours per week
10-19 hours per week.
20-34 hours per week
35-49 hours per week
50-99 hours per week
100 or more hours per week
Varies – Under 20 hours
Varies – 20 hours or more
Other

Participant age 0 - 120
Starts January 2010
Ends January 2011
Provision OR Receipt OR Need? Provision;
Informant: Carer
Multiple rater? No
Reporting Term Current
Standard instrument? No
Measure ID SCH-2921