Determinants of the living arrangements of older people in Europe Déterminants des modes de vie des personnes âgées en Europe
Gaymu, Joëlle;
Delbès, Christiane;
Springer, Sabine;
Binet, Adrian;
Désesquelles, Aline;
Kalogirou, Stamatis;
Ziegler, Uta;
(2006)
Determinants of the living arrangements of older people in Europe Déterminants des modes de vie des personnes âgées en Europe.
European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie, 22 (3).
pp. 241-262.
ISSN 0168-6577
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-006-9004-7
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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.
