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Table 2 Official dependency index criteria

From: Economic valuation of informal care in cerebrovascular accident survivors in Spain

Degree of dependence

Care recipient, at least one hour per week (n = 1,221/192,611)

All CVA survivors (n = 1,975/329,544)

Not dependent

23.1%

43.6%

Moderately dependent

23.7%

18.3%

Severely dependent

20.6%

15.6%

Greatly dependent

32.6%

22.6%

  1. Note: results are an extrapolation to the entire population according to the elevation factor provided by the EDAD-08 survey.