Publication type
Report
Series Number
2020/03
Series
Care Matters Series
Authors
Publication date
June 15, 2020
Summary:
This report considers the financial wellbeing of people providing unpaid care (outside their own household) in April and May 2020, during the UK’s official ‘lockdown’ in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also looks at their likelihood of being ‘furloughed’ and at changes in their working hours, analysing these by sex, age and employment status. An estimated 6,048,286 adults provided care to someone living outside their own household in the UK in 2020. They are a ‘subset’ of the 10,991,440 adults estimated to be carers.
About the study: ‘Carers’ were identified by combining data in the COVID-19 April 2020 wave with data in wave 9 (2017-19) of Understanding Society. Wave 9 asked people if they provided care to anyone outside the household who was elderly or had a long-term illness or disability. The COVID-19 April wave asked respondents about care for persons outside the household (data on their age, long-term illness or disability status were not collected). People who answered ‘Yes’ to both questions are the (unpaid) carers providing care outside the household referred to in this report.
Subjects
Links
- http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/sustainable-care-publications/
- http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/sustainable-care-publications/
- http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CARING-and-COVID-19-Financial-wellbeing_04.08.20.pdf
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