Table 2. Carer characteristics, care-recipient care needs and limitations, and characteristics of the care situation by country and overall sample (N = 3.348, in%).

Variable	Country						Total
	EL	IT	UK	SE	PL	DE
Characteristics of carer
Female	87	78	83	73	77	78	78
High educational attainment	19	16	12	26	15	21	18
Very religious	44	21	12	5	10	5	14
Care-recipient’s needs and limitations
Moderate to severe dependency	73	66	77	73	51	81	67
Memory problems (w/o dementia diagnosis)	19	25	37	32	19	26	25
Memory problems (dementia diagnosis)	23	24	20	20	23	39	24
Behavioural problems	40	37	30	40	28	46	36
Characteristics of the care situation
More than 20 hours of care per week	69	53	58	37	56	54	53
High unmet needs1	59	47	21	14	24	35	32
High negative impact of care2	76	49	47	49	22	53	44
High positive value of care2	43	32	38	49	49	24	40
Carer relationship to care-recipient other than partner or child (in-law)	11	18	18	7	17	11	14
Sample size per country (N)	281	860	318	568	875	446	3,348

¹ unmet needs in at least three need domains

² median-split