Who is responsible for providing care? Investigating the role of care tasks and past experiences in a cross-sectional survey in the Netherlands

Table 3 Multivariate statistics of views on responsibility for care and background characteristics, health and informal care characteristics according to type of care (care in general; model A, personal or nursing care; model B, and support activities; model C)

		Views on responsibility for^a:
		MODEL A		MODEL B		MODEL C
		Care in general (n = 930)		Personal or nursing care (n = 937)		Support activities (n = 947)
		St. coeff.	P-value	St. coeff.	P-value	St. coeff.	P-value
Background characteristics
Age		−0.13	0.004	−0.12	0.006	−0.10	0.020
Gender (ref. male)	female	0.12	0.000	0.10	0.004	0.11	0.001
Educational level (ref. high)	low	0.14	0.000	0.11	0.007	0.13	0.001
Educational level (ref. high)	middle	0.09	0.021	0.06	0.121	0.09	0.016
Marital status (ref. married/reg. partner)	divorced/widowed	0.01	0.854	0.00	0.912	0.02	0.668
Marital status (ref. married/reg. partner)	never been married	0.09	0.017	0.09	0.014	0.07	0.066
Income (ref. high)	low	0.07	0.079	0.07	0.116	0.06	0.172
Income (ref. high)	middle	0.08	0.042	0.10	0.007	0.04	0.332
Employment status (ref. no paid work)	fulltime	0.04	0.342	0.06	0.186	0.02	0.649
Employment status (ref. no paid work)	part-time	0.10	0.013	0.13	0.002	0.05	0.185
Health
General health (ref. (very) good/excellent)	moderate/bad	0.05	0.137	0.04	0.282	0.05	0.149
Level of physical disability (ref. no)	mild	−0.02	0.528	−0.03	0.344	−0.01	0.884
Level of physical disability (ref. no)	moderate/severe	0.07	0.077	0.02	0.526	0.03	0.08
Infomal care characteristics
Informal caregiver at present (ref. no)	yes	0.03	0.331	0.04	0.202	0.01	0.781
Constant (coef.)		2.73	0.000	3.11	0.000	2.26	0.000
Adjusted R2		0.10		0.08		0.06

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