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Counting young carers in Switzerland – a study of prevalence

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posted on 2023-06-20, 14:17 authored by Agnes Leu, Marianne Frech, Hannah Wepf, Joe Sempik, Stephen Joseph, Laura Helbling, Urs Moser, Saul Becker, Corinna Jung
An online survey of children in school grades 4–9 (mostly aged 10–15) was conducted in order to determine the prevalence of young carers in Switzerland using a 2-stage stratified sampling approach. 4082 respondents were drawn from 230 schools. A total of 3991 respondents were included in the analysis and of these 307 (7.7%) were identified as young carers. The population estimate of prevalence was 7.9 per cent. This suggests that there are around 38 400 young carers in school grades 4–9 in Switzerland. Extrapolating to the 9–16 age group gives a figure of almost 51 500.

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Children and Society

ISSN

0951-0605

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Wiley

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1

Volume

33

Page range

53-67

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  • Social Work and Social Care Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2018-10-02

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-11-09

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2018-10-02

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