This statistic presents the share of Italian and German adults, who consider provision of help to other family members (financial and otherwise) to be their responsibility, as of 2014, by duty performed. Approximately 87 percent of Italian and 56 percent of German adult children consider helping elderly parents to be their responsibility. A much smaller share of people actively saving money to hand down to their children after death consider it to be a responsibility: 27 percent in Italy and 16 percent in Germany.
Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed
Characteristic
Germans
Italians
Financial help to elderly parents if they need it, by children
56%
87%
Financial help to adult children if they need it, by parents
63%
73%
Help in taking care of grandchildren care, by grandparents
38%
50%
Parents saving money to hand to children after death
* 1,700 sample size in Germany and 1,516 in Italy. The source adds the following note: "Respondents were asked whether each was a responsiblitiy or not a responsibility, regardless of whether it might be a good thing to do."
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Pew Research Center. (May 21, 2015). Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/
Pew Research Center. "Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed." Chart. May 21, 2015. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/
Pew Research Center. (2015). Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/
Pew Research Center. "Share of Respondents Who Consider Helping Family (Financially and Otherwise) to Be a Responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by Duty Performed." Statista, Statista Inc., 21 May 2015, https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/
Pew Research Center, Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Share of respondents who consider helping family (financially and otherwise) to be a responsibility in Germany and Italy as of 2014, by duty performed [Graph], Pew Research Center, May 21, 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/430686/family-financial-help-responsibility-italy-germany/
