The household structure of the elderly population in Britain
The household structure of the elderly population in Britain
This paper uses nationally representative data from the General Household Survey for 1980 to investigate the household structure of the elderly in Britain. Household structure is analysed in terms of its relationship to the marital status, age, gender and physical disability of the elderly person. 79% of the elderly either live alone or with their spouse only. As many as 95% of all the elderly in non-institutional accommodation retain their own households – of the rest, the majority move to live with married children, most usually daughters.
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Dale, Angela
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Evandrou, Maria
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Arber, Sarah
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March 1987
Dale, Angela
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Evandrou, Maria
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Arber, Sarah
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Dale, Angela, Evandrou, Maria and Arber, Sarah
(1987)
The household structure of the elderly population in Britain.
Ageing & Society, 7 (1), .
(doi:10.1017/S0144686X00012289).
Abstract
This paper uses nationally representative data from the General Household Survey for 1980 to investigate the household structure of the elderly in Britain. Household structure is analysed in terms of its relationship to the marital status, age, gender and physical disability of the elderly person. 79% of the elderly either live alone or with their spouse only. As many as 95% of all the elderly in non-institutional accommodation retain their own households – of the rest, the majority move to live with married children, most usually daughters.
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Published date: March 1987
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Local EPrints ID: 488382
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488382
ISSN: 0144-686X
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