Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of the adult child study sample by informal caregiving group as reported by older parents (n = 1164)
| Caregiving group | No care n = 763, (65.53%) |
1 care task n = 300, (25.76%) |
2 care tasks n = 63, (5.44%) |
3+ care tasks n = 38, (3.27%) |
p value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult children | |||||
| Gender | < 0.001 | ||||
| Sons | 384 (66.65) | 163 (28.30) | 22 (3.78) | 7 (1.27) | |
| Daughters | 379 (64.42) | 137 (23.28) | 42 (7.07) | 31 (5.23) | |
| Own class | 0.034 | ||||
| Manual workers | 173 (58.08) | 86 (28.87) | 27 (9.12) | 12 (3.93) | |
| Non-manual workers | 371 (67.91) | 127 (23.27) | 24 (4.35) | 24 (4.48) | |
| Self-employed/farmer | 127 (69.75) | 48 (26.14) | 7 (3.96) | 0 (0.15) | |
| Unclassified | 93 (67.41) | 38 (27.76) | 5 (3.42) | 2 (1.41) | |
| Labour market activity | < 0.001 | ||||
| Working | 603 (66.22) | 242 (26.56) | 42 (4.59) | 24 (2.63) | |
| Retired | 92 (53.73) | 40 (23.37) | 21 (12.23) | 18 (10.68) | |
| Other | 59 (71.98) | 16 (20.01) | 5 (6.54) | 1 (1.47) | |
| Distance to parent | < 0.001 | ||||
| Less than 20 km | 308 (51.20) | 214 (35.49) | 50 (8.26) | 30 (5.05) | |
| 21–100 km | 164 (72.17) | 51 (22.50) | 10 (4.37) | 2 (0.96) | |
| More than 100 km | 292 (87.02) | 35 (10.35) | 4 (1.05) | 5 (1.59) | |
| Parents | |||||
| Gender | < 0.001 | ||||
| Fathers | 415 (72.56) | 135 (23.59) | 18 (3.10) | 4 (0.75) | |
| Mothers | 356 (60.18) | 162 (27.41) | 43 (7.22) | 31 (5.19) | |
| Household class | < 0.001 | ||||
| Manual workers | 174 (63.16) | 80 (28.68) | 14 (5.24) | 8 (2.73) | |
| Lower non-manual workers | 88 (57.30) | 53 (34.28) | 9 (5.62) | 4 (2.80) | |
| Intermediate/higher non-manual workers | 252 (75.83) | 69 (20.86) | 7 (2.21) | 4 (1.10) | |
| Self-employed/farmers | 246 (61.10) | 99 (24.59) | 34 (8.47) | 24 (5.85) | |
| Age groups | < 0.001 | ||||
| 76–79 | 182 (73.98) | 53 (21.54) | 6 (2.44) | 5 (2.03) | |
| 80–84 | 214 (64.65) | 95 (28.70) | 14 (4.23) | 8 (2.42) | |
| 85+ | 350 (59.63) | 152 (25.98) | 54 (9.19) | 31 (5.21) | |
| Living alone | < 0.001 | ||||
| Yes | 358 (56.68) | 188 (29.78) | 56 (8.91) | 29 (4.63) | |
| No | 399 (75.07) | 114 (21.44) | 9 (1.69) | 10 (1.80) | |
Row percentage. Statistical significance between groups (Chi2): *p < 0.05