72% of Andorran Workers with Minors Face Job Impacts, Survey Reveals
A 2025 Labour Force Survey highlights childcare costs and limited service use as key barriers, with 42.6% of caregivers for minors avoiding formal options. Gender differences in usage remain minimal.
Key Points
- 72.2% of employed Andorrans caring for minors report negative job effects like schedule changes or stalled promotions.
- 24.7% of 18-74 population (17,129 people) handle regular childcare, mostly for under-14s; women at 26.6% vs. men 23%.
- 57.4% use childcare services; non-users cite high costs (46.2%) or self-handling (36.1%).
- Long hours hinder work-life balance for 67.5% of struggling salaried workers; 89.7% took maternity/paternity leave.
Nearly three-quarters of Andorran workers responsible for caring for minors report negative effects on their careers, according to the Department of Statistics' 2025 Labour Force Survey on work-life balance, released Thursday.
The study shows that 72.2% of employed people with these duties experienced job impacts, compared to 27.8% who faced no such issues. Common responses included modifying work schedules without reducing hours (23.7%), switching jobs or employers (23.4%), or facing other limitations such as lower availability, stalled promotions, or changed responsibilities (52.9%).
Overall, 24.7% of the 18-to-74 population—around 17,129 individuals—reported regular caregiving for children up to age 14, dependents aged 15 or older, or both. Childcare proved the most frequent responsibility, affecting 22.7% or 15,717 people, while care for those 15 and above involved 2.8% or roughly 1,976 individuals. Women reported these duties slightly more often (26.6%) than men (23%).
Among caregivers for minors, 57.4% relied on childcare services, while 42.6% did not. Those avoiding formal options most frequently pointed to high costs (46.2%) or handling care alone or with a partner (36.1%), along with insufficient services (6.8%), children managing independently (3.4%), informal family help (2.5%), or service unavailability (0.4%). Differences in service use by gender stayed minimal.
Long work hours ranked as the leading obstacle to work-family balance for 67.5% of salaried employees struggling with it. Other factors were tiring or intense roles (11.8%) and irregular or rigid timetables (7.6%).
Regarding leave, 89.7% of workers or those with prior employment who had children used maternity or paternity leave. Only 2.5% paired it with extra parental leave, while 7.8% took no such time off.
By comparison, Spain's National Statistics Institute recorded 33.4% of its 18-to-74 population with caregiving roles, with women affected more across employment types.
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