Literal question
22. Do you provide regular unpaid personal help for a friend or family member with a long-term illness, health problem, or disability?
Include problems which are due to old age.
Personal help includes help with basic tasks such as feeding or dressing.
[] 1 Yes
[] 2 No
If 'Yes', for how many hours per week? Write in hours. _ _ _
Question 22 -- Do you provide regular unpaid personal help for a friend or family member with a long-term illness, health problem or disability?
If you provide regular unpaid help as a carer, regardless of whether or not you are in receipt of carer's allowance/benefit, you should mark box 1 (Yes) and write in the weekly number of hours of caring.
Interviewer instructions
Question 22. The results of question 22 will facilitate assessment of the extent to which unpaid personal help is provided by carers in our society, along with the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the carers themselves. Those who provide regular unpaid help as a carer, regardless of whether or not they receive Carer's Allowance/Benefit, should mark box 1 (Yes) and write in the weekly number of hours of caring. This question is being asked of persons aged 14 and younger for the first time.
