Geographic proximity between adult children and their parents in Canada

Samuel MacIsaac, Yuri Ostrovsky and Grant Schellenberg

Economic and Social Reports from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch

Abstract: How far adult children live from their aging parents can shape family support, caregiving, and job choices. But most data focus on people living in the same home—like with their parents—and rarely track them across long periods, missing key moments when they move out or return to help, or receive grandparent help from, an aging parent. This means that information on family members who no longer reside in the same household is scarce. Moreover, despite numerous international studies on what keeps families residing nearby (Michielin and Mulder 2007; Isengard, 2013; Compton and Pollak, 2015; Choi et al., 2020), less is known about how childhood circumstances could affect residential decisions later in life.

Keywords: geographic proximity; adult; children and their parents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-11-26
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DOI: 10.25318/36280001202501100002-eng

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