Table 3.

Number of hours per week spent by informal caregivers in support of their care recipients – measured by the diary method (n = 100).

Variables	Total	Household work	Support in practical and economic work	Contacts with health care	Travel to the care recipient	Other	Time reserved or in a stand-by status for the care recipient
M	22.5	5.1	0.6	0.9	1.3	3.4	11.2
SD	35.6	14.1	1.2	1.3	2.1	5.2	29.7
Median	13.0	1.0	0.0	0.8	0.3	1.0	1.0
Range	0.3–187.3	0.0–131.0	0.0–7.3	0.0–7.3	0.0–12.3	0.0–22.5	0.0–168.3

Missing values = 18