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Counting Young Carers in Switzerland – A Study of Prevalence
Author(s) -
Leu Agnes,
Frech Marianne,
Wepf Hannah,
Sempik Joe,
Joseph Stephen,
Helbling Laura,
Moser Urs,
Becker Saul,
Jung Corinna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12296
Subject(s) - stratified sampling , demography , young adult , population , medicine , gerontology , psychology , sociology , pathology
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.