Census of Population of Ireland, 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Ireland, 2011

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IRL_2011_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistics Office, IPUMS

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Unpaid carer (IE2011A_CARER)

Data file: IRL2011_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 249

End: 249

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<span class="em">22. Do you provide regular unpaid personal help for a friend or family member with a long-term illness, health problem, or disability?</span><div class="i1">Include problems which are due to old age.<br />Personal help includes help with basic tasks such as feeding or dressing.<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No</div><div class="i2">If 'Yes', for how many hours per week? Write in hours. _ _ _</div><span class="em">Question 22 -- Do you provide regular unpaid personal help for a friend or family member with a long-term illness, health problem or disability? </span>
<br />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.

Value	Category
1	Unpaid carer
2	Not a carer (including not stated)
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the person is an unpaid carer.

Universe

Ireland 2011: Present persons [discrepancies: type I none; type II 92%]

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