Distance to old parents

Gunnar Malmberg and Anna Pettersson
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Gunnar Malmberg: Umeå Universitet
Anna Pettersson: Umeå Universitet

Demographic Research, 2007, vol. 17, issue 23, 679-704

Abstract: In the present study, features of and trends in child-parent proximity in Sweden are analyzed using comprehensive register data. The results show that 85% of older parents have adult children within a radius of 50 km, of which 10% live ‘just around the corner’; corresponding figures for adult children are 72% and 5%, respectively. The study gives no indication of increasing intergenerational distances. Results from logistic regressions show that adult children who are well educated, female, older, born in Sweden, who are not parents, who live in densely populated areas, and have siblings are less likely to stay in the same region as their parents.

Keywords: Sweden; registry data; aging; child-parent proximity; adult children; old parents; logistic regression analysis; intergenerational contacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2007.17.23

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