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.