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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ageing Soc. 2009 Jan;29(1):71–91. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X08007666

Table 2. Care received from within and without the household, persons aged 75 or more years in France and Israel.

Care received from
outside the household
Care received from a household member
None
From spouse
From other
Total
N % N % N % N %
France 1
 None 296 51.2 15 41.7 2 11.8 313 49.6
 Informal only 93 16.1 3 8.3 2 11.8 98 15.5
 Formal only 85 14.7 14 38.9 6 35.3 105 1 6.0
 Both formal and informal 104 18.0 4 11.1 7 41.2 115 1 8.2
 Total 578 100.0 36 100.0 17 100.0 631 1 00.0
Israel 1
 None 200 55.4 13 48.1 4 26.7 2I7 53.8
 Informal only 73 20.2 3 11.1 2 13.3 78 19.4
 Formal only 40 11.1 9 33.3 5 33.3 54 13.4
 Both formal and informal 48 13.3 2 7.4 4 26.7 54 13.4
 Total 361 100.0 27 100.0 15 T00.0 403 100.0

Notes:

1

Significance of the three-by-four comparisons: France, χ2 = 28.6 (degrees of freedom 6), p < 0.001; Israel, χ2 = 20.4 (df 6), p < 0.01.