Data-Driven Learning Guide | printer-friendly version |
Aging and Caregiving: A Data-Driven Learning Guide
Interpretation & Summary
Think about your answers to the application questions before you click through to the interpretation guide for help in answering them.
Who are the caregivers?
According to the frequency table of GAVECARE, what percentage of people gave care in the past year? Is the number higher or lower you might've expected?
What proportion of caregivers are caring for parents?
Which age groups are more likely to have given care?
Are the results for giving care to parents the same as for caregiving in general?
Of those who gave care, what percentage are male? What percentage are female? Are the results as you expected? Why?
How much time is spent caregiving?
Describe the number of weeks per year and hours per week respondents spent in caregiving.
Do caregivers of parents differ from other caregivers in the number of weeks per year or hours per week spent caring?
Does Caregivers' well-being differ from that of non-caregivers?
Do caregivers experience more negative effects of family on their work than do non-caregivers?
Are people who give care to parents more or less affected at work than are those who give care to non-parents?
Is there a difference in frequency of marital trouble between caregivers and non-caregivers? Describe any difference you see.
Is the relationship between marital quality and caregiving different for those caring for parents than for other caregivers?
Do caregivers and non-caregivers rate their levels of life satisfaction differently? Do those who care for parents rate their lives differently than other caregivers?
CITATION: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Aging and Caregiving: A Data-Driven Learning Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-04-16. Doi:10.3886/agingcaregiving
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.