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EU care workers: paid long-term care staff in six European countries
Paid care workers in care homes, home care, live-in care and day care across Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland, by role, citizenship, contract, pay and short staffing. For testing care workforce policies, pay floors, staffing ratios, recruitment from abroad and new home care technology.
6 places, by country
What each person has
- Setting
- Care home44%
- Home care visits35%
- Live-in care13%
- Day care centre8%
- Role
- Care assistant53%
- Nurse18%
- Social care worker18%
- Live-in carer12%
- Sex
- Woman85%
- Man15%
- Age
- 18-2917%
- 30-4433%
- 45-5427%
- 55-7023%
- Citizenship
- National71%
- Other EU country12%
- Outside the EU17%
- Contract
- Permanent63%
- Fixed-term18%
- Agency or temporary12%
- Undeclared or informal7%
- Weekly hours
- Under 20 hours13%
- 20 to 34 hours40%
- 35 hours or more48%
- Pay
- At or near the minimum wage42%
- Up to a third above it37%
- More than a third above it21%
- Short staffing
- Rarely21%
- Sometimes38%
- Often41%
- Plans for the next two years
- Stay in their job56%
- Move to another care job23%
- Leave care work21%