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Older carers in the UK: are there really gender differences?
— new analysis of the Individual Sample of Anonymised Records from the 2001 UK Census | | Author(s) | Emilia Del Bono, Emmanuela Sala, Ruth Hancock |
| Journal title | Health and Social Care in the Community, vol 17, no 3, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 267-273 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Men as carers ; Women as carers ; Marital status ; Age group distribution statistics ; Census. |
| Annotation | Logistic and interval regression models are applied to individual records from the 2001 Census to estimate the following: the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a carer; the impact of gender on the hours of care provided; and the impact of gender on the likelihood of being a carer for different groups defined by marital status. In the general population, the share of women who provide care is higher than the corresponding share of men, but men have a higher probability of being carers among people aged 65+. This phenomenon is largely explained by gender differences in marital status. As older men are more likely to be married, and married people are more likely to be carers, higher levels of caring among older men are observed. Once differences i marital status are accounted for, the relationship between gender and care provision among older people is overturned. In particular, the analysis finds that without controlling for household size, limiting long-term illness or marital status. the odds of being an informal carer are lower for older women than men. Once these factors are accounted for, older women have higher odds of caring than older men. Restricting the sample to care providers, and controlling for the same factors, it is shown that women supply on average 3.77 more hours of care per week than older men. Gender differences in the provision of care among older people disappears only when considering married individuals and adjusting for the presence of other household residents affected by a limiting long-term illness. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090728202 A |
| Classmark | P6:SG: P6:SH: SLM: S6: S4C |
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