Determinants of the living arrangements of older people in Europe Déterminants des modes de vie des personnes âgées en Europe

Joëlle Gaymu (), Christiane Delbès (), Sabine Springer (), Adrian Binet (), Aline Désesquelles, Stamatis Kalogirou () and Uta Ziegler ()
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Joëlle Gaymu: Institut National d’ Etudes Démographiques
Christiane Delbès: Fondation Nationale de Gérontologie
Sabine Springer: Institut National d’ Etudes Démographiques
Adrian Binet: Institut National d’ Etudes Démographiques
Stamatis Kalogirou: Centre for Population Studies
Uta Ziegler: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

European Journal of Population, 2006, vol. 22, issue 3, No 3, 262 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyses the influence of relevant variables (age, sex, marital status, health, income, education and children) on the risk of belonging to one of the four main types of household in which old European people live nowadays: alone, with partner, with others, in a collective household. Nine countries with different social and political contexts are compared by using different data sources. These socio-demographic characteristics play the same role in all countries except for the influence of childlessness and of gender, but the geographical heterogeneity of the living arrangements remains partly unexplained due to currently inadequate comparative data sources for Europe.

Keywords: Living arrangement; Europe; Ageing; Modes de vie; Europe; vieillissement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-006-9004-7

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