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Informal carers
— an independent study carried out by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of the Department of Health as part of the 1995 General Household Survey | | Author(s) | Olwen Rowlands, Gillian Parker |
| Corporate Author | Social Survey Division, Office for National Statistics - ONS |
| Publisher | The Stationery Office, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 56 pp (GHS Supplement A) |
| Source | The Publications Centre, PO Box 276, London SW8 5DT. |
| Keywords | Family care ; Social surveys ; Statistics [data]. |
| Annotation | This two-part report presents the findings of the most recent investigation by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of informal carers. In the first part, the results of a series of questions in the 1995 General Household Survey (GHS) addressed to people caring for sick, disabled or older persons are described. Similar questions were previously included in the 1985 and 1990 GHS surveys. Information was collected from a nationally representative sample of approximately 18,000 adults in Great Britain. Part two comments on the findings of the three surveys, and looks at the trends in caring from 1985 to 1995. Findings from the 1995 survey revealed that 13% of the adults were informal carers, and 17% of the households contained a carer. Women were slightly more likely to be carers than men. A total of 24% of carers had been caring or their dependants for at least 10 years. Over half of all carers had main dependants who did not receive regular visits from health, social or voluntary services. Secondary analysis of the results from the previous two GHS surveys suggests that there is a growing division between carers involved in heavy caring responsibilities and those involved in informal helping. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980608402 B |
| Classmark | P6:SJ: 3F: 6C |
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