Dataset: The Health of Houston Survey 2018 Pre-Harvey

Variable care_2: Hours per week spent providing unpaid care to family or friend [S]

Literal Question

CARE_2. How many hours in a typical week do you spend providing this care?

Descriptive Text

The universe for this variable includes all adult respondents age 18 and older that had provided unpaid care to a family member, friend, or neighbor who needed help because of disability or frailty in the last 12 months. Question was not asked to post-Harvey sample. NOTE: Any tabulations including this variable need to be performed using pre-Harvey weight (Fnlwgt_pre).

Values Categories N NW
0 Less than one hour 51 52,622.4
 5.6%
1 227 238,345.4
 25.2%
2 122 151,435.0
 16.0%
3 70 87,322.3
 9.2%
4 52 64,469.5
 6.8%
5 42 53,437.8
 5.7%
6 27 25,848.2
 2.7%
7 12 14,486.0
 1.5%
8 32 33,632.6
 3.6%
9 2 3,583.3
 0.4%
10 30 39,740.5
 4.2%
12 22 27,695.1
 2.9%
14 4 3,439.9
 0.4%
15 8 6,163.6
 0.7%
16 3 1,679.0
 0.2%
18 1 2,772.9
 0.3%
20 19 26,974.0
 2.9%
21 3 5,534.4
 0.6%
24 21 21,650.5
 2.3%
25 2 3,507.8
 0.4%
26 1 1,385.2
 0.1%
28 2 5,321.4
 0.6%
30 8 9,335.4
 1.0%
40 13 14,910.6
 1.6%
43 1 3,887.8
 0.4%
48 3 2,501.6
 0.3%
50 3 3,486.4
 0.4%
60 1 982.3
 0.1%
70 1 228.1
 0.0%
72 1 372.0
 0.0%
80 1 234.1
 0.0%
84 2 1,739.5
 0.2%
96 1 640.3
 0.1%
98 1 3,049.0
 0.3%
100 4 6,539.4
 0.7%
112 1 393.4
 0.0%
120 1 251.8
 0.0%
140 1 1,836.6
 0.2%
150 19 23,381.8
 2.5%
-8 Not in universe 1825 2,259,696.2
-7 Interview suspended 69 122,958.6

Summary Statistics

Valid cases 815 944816.89
Missing cases 1894 2382654.84
Standard deviation 26.14 26.746
This variable is numeric

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