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Technical paper on Social Inclusion and Access to Care Services in Ireland. Social Inclusion Technical Paper No 9. 14 February 2019

Grotti, Raffaele and Maitre, Bertrand and Watson, Dorothy (2019) Technical paper on Social Inclusion and Access to Care Services in Ireland. Social Inclusion Technical Paper No 9. 14 February 2019. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    In this technical paper, we use the special module on access to services from the Irish SILC data for 2016 to examine differences by social risk group and social class in access to care services. These include childcare and care for people with an illness or infirmity and the services may be publicly or privately provided. We investigate the contribution of this approach to the measurement of access to services. We also examine the association between access to these services and both poverty and employment. We comment on the implications of the results for social inclusion policy and highlight some measurement issues with this approach to capturing group differences in access to services. The analysis shows that most children under the age of twelve are cared by their parents and less than one in five families are using formal childcare services. Disadvantaged families with children are more likely to report unmet needs for formal childcare, most often due to an inability to afford them. As we might expect, the need for home care services is greatest among older adults and those with a disability. However, older adults who need this service are much more likely than those with a disability to be receiving professional home care services. However the level of unmet need for professional home care remains high across all social risk groups, mostly due to the unavailability of services rather than affordability. In the case of childcare there is a stronger relationship between poverty and access to these services than in the case of access to home care services. Finally, while there is some suggestion that the lack of access to childcare services may constrain women’s labour supply, we did not find clear evidence of such constraint in the case of home care.

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    Item Type: Other
    Uncontrolled Keywords: childcare, home care, social risk group, social class, social exclusion, poverty, SILC; Ireland
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > families and children
    Countries > Ireland
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin > ESRI Technical Series
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 26 Dec 2019 19:07
    Number of Pages: 75
    Last Modified: 17 Jan 2020 16:32
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/101945

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