Description for chart 6
Women more likely to help with personal care; men with house maintenance

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The title of the graph is "Chart 6 Women more likely to help with personal care; men with house maintenance."
This is a bar clustered chart.
This is a horizontal bar graph, so categories are on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis.
There are in total 9 categories in the vertical axis. The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 100 with ticks every 10 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The horizontal axis is "Type of help provided by caregiver."
The vertical axis is "Percent of caregivers."
The title of series 1 is "Male†."
The minimum value is 13 and it corresponds to "Personal care."
The maximum value is 95 and it corresponds to "Visiting or calling to ensure care-receiver was ok."
The title of series 2 is "Female ."
The minimum value is 27 and it corresponds to "Medical treatments."
The maximum value is 97 and it corresponds to "Visiting or calling to ensure care-receiver was ok."

Data table for chart 6
  Male† Female
Personal care 13 29
Medical treatments 18 27
Managing finances 26 28
Making appointments 25 36
House maintenance and outdoor work 56 35
Household work 41 59
Providing transportation 72 74
Providing emotional support 84 92
Visiting or calling to ensure care-receiver was ok 95 97
reference category
*
significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05)
Source:
Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 2012.
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