Social costs associated with fibromyalgia in Spain

Health Economics Review

Table 4 Informal caregiving hours

	Max. 16 h/day	Max. 24 h/day
Informal caregivers (at population level)	157,086	157,086
Panel A: Weekly informal caregiving hours for average caregiver
Dependency degree: hours per week
Non eligible	44.42	54.44
Non eligible	(37.53)	(56.65)
Moderate dependent	46.82	54.15
Moderate dependent	(34.74)	(49.75)
Severe dependent	63.63	79.11
Severe dependent	(37.36)	(58.77)
Highly dependent	67.67	81.67
Highly dependent	(36.31)	(56.81)
Average	50.49	60.89
Average	(37.32)	(55.69)
By informal caregiver’s sex
Men	58.45	72.69
Men	(38.67)	(60.25)
Women	40.82	47.17
Women	(34.47)	(48.25)
Days per week	6.54	6.54
Days per week	(1.11)	(1.11)
Panel B: Annual informal caregiving hours for caregiver
Non eligible	2,316	2,839
Moderate dependent	2,442	2,823
Severe dependent	3,318	4,125
Highly dependent	3,528	4,258
Average	2,527	3,051
Panel C: Annual informal caregiving hours for total caregivers
Non eligible	127,623,059	156,409,339
Moderate dependent	84,805,262	98,070,628
Severe dependent	50,517,386	62,812,148
Highly dependent	40,105,102	48,402,709
Total	303,050,810	365,694,823
Panel D: Distribution of annual informal caregiving hours (%)
Non eligible	42.11%	42.77%
Moderate dependent	27.98%	26.82%
Severe dependent	16.67%	17.18%
Highly dependent	13.23%	13.24%

Panel A shows daily informal caregiving hours
Panel B shows the annual number of informal caregiving
Panel C shows the yearly number of informal caregiving hours at population level
Panel D show the percentual distribution of yearly informal caregiving hours
Left part of the table considers that the maximum number of caregiving hours is 24. Right part of the table considers that the maximum number of caregiving hours is 16, so all caregivers who report a number of daily hours of care greater than 16 are censored at 16 h
All figures have been computed using population sampling weights
Source: own work using EDAD(2020)

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