List of Care Indicators

The indicators to collect for the implementation of a care project are found in this guide (English version).

The Care Indicators project is made up of 36 indicators divided into three dimensions:

• The context, which contains indicators that aim to quantify and describe the number of people who require or will require care, disaggregated by the type of care they require;

• The demand, which aims to identify disaggregated needs as well as existing care relationships, both formal and informal,

• The offer, which seeks to explore the existing care services in the city, their capabilities, and the type of care they cover.

The indicator system focuses on four interest groups: children and adolescents (C&A); people with disabilities (PwD) and older adults (OA), who are those who receive or potentially will require care. Additionally, caregivers are studied, the conditions in which they care and who they care for, whether their work is paid or unpaid, and the degree of professionalization they have.

Each of the indicators has a conceptual definition, which describes the objective of what the indicator seeks to measure and the input data sets required to construct it, and an operational definition, which describes the mathematical processing necessary to arrive at the indicator. to the indicator.

By collecting the data of all the indicators and computing them, the person or implementing team can measure how many people, demographically speaking, require care, what care offer exists, both in the public sector, the private sector and family or individual care networks, and what demand for said care work exists, including over-demand or under-utilization of care supply.

Name	Definition	Possible values
Thematic Group	On which demographic group data should be collected. Most of the indicators are intended for the 3 priority groups, but some are group specific. In the case where more than one group is represented, it is recommended to have one indicator for each group.	Children and Adolescents, People with Disabilities, Older Adults, Caregivers
Value of dataset for care	Explanation on how to use the indicator data for decision making.	Paragraph with explanatory text
Sector	Describes the sector of the population providing the care or describing the indicator.	Home, State, Market, Community
Category	One of the three categories of the indicator system.	Context, Offer, Demand
Sub-category	One of the different areas of life to which the indicator belongs.	Demographics, Dependency, Economics, Recreation, Access, Quality, Time use, Coverage
Unit of measurement	Descriptor on how to disaggregate the indicator.	Example: Number of people, number of centers, amount in local currency, etc.
Attributes	List of suggested columns to compile. The better the disaggregation and granularity of data, the better quality decisions can be made.	Example: Gender, Location, Age, Income level, etc.
Priority	Recommendation of importance of each indicator. Those with high priority are indispensable, but those with medium priority allow for more granular decision making.	Medium, High
Source of information	A descriptor of the type of databases where the indicator information is located.	Explanatory text