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. 2021 Nov 26;11(11):e052140. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052140

Table 1.

Characteristics of the cohort

Answer categories No. of cases Total % Answer categories No. of cases Total %
Gender Female 39 943 70.5 Care of someone No 24 755 39.75
Male 16 556 29.22 Yes, <16 years 15 452 24.81
Non-binary 88 0.15 Yes, >16 years 7624 12.24
Not saying 69 0.12 Yes, siblings 782 1.26
Origin Catalonia region 54 318 95.63 Yes, parents 9409 15.11
Other 2480 4.37 Yes, others 4248 6.82
Civil status Married 30 389 53.65 Burden of care (in n options selected) none 24 814 43.80
Divorced 6030 10.64 1 14 055 24.81
In couple 10 305 18.19 2 15 070 26.60
Single 7990 14.1 3 2473 4.36
Widow 1929 3.4 4 217 0.38
Housing Owned apartment/house 51 428 90.95 5 20 0.03
Shared apartment/house 4417 7.81 People providing financially at home >2 4379 7.77
Rented room 607 1.07 2 37 677 66.9
Centre/institution 71 0.12 1 14 256 25.31
Homeless 18 0.03 Savings No 11 685 20.67
Maximum education degree Primary education 2182 3.85 Yes 20 201 35.73
Secondary education 3093 5.46 Some 24 637 43.58
High school 17 853 31.53 Mortgage to pay No 33 374 59.01
Degree 24 130 42.62 Yes, one 20 141 35.61
Master 7528 13.29 Yes, more than one 3041 5.37
PhD 1829 3.23 Rent to pay No 42 899 75.83
Employment Qualified job 20 449 36.13 Yes 13 669 24.16
Non-qualified job 2037 3.59 Occupation of HCW Nurse 1567 30.63
Job in healthcare 5132 9.06 Physician 1110 21.70
Home/people care 2731 4.82 Others (including working in a private pharmacy) 659 12.88
Self-employed 5110 9.02 Technician 588 11.49
Company owner 2417 4.27 Administrative staff 511 9.99
Unemployed 2883 5.09 Nurse assistant 491 9.59
Other 15 832 27.97 Researcher 129 2.52
Caretaker 28 0.54
Cleaning staff 15 0.29
Catering staff 13 0.25
Laundry personnel 4 0.07

Number of cases (number of responses received per answer category) and percentage of the total responses obtained for each question. Please note that some of the questions were multiple choice.

HCW, healthcare worker.