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Old age support in contemporary urban China from both parents' and children's perspectives
Author(s)	Rongjun Sun
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 24, no 3, May 2002
Pages	pp 337-359
Keywords	Informal care ; Gifts [elderly] ; Aid in kind ; Attitude ; Parents ; Children [offspring] ; Social surveys ; China.
Annotation	Survey data collected in 1994 in Baoding, China is used in exploring the links between old age support and the characteristics of both parents and children. Three specific forms of support are examined: monetary transfers, in-kind gifts, and help with daily activities. Hierarchical modelling is applied to the analysis from children's perspectives to control for unobserved family heterogeneity. Results indicate that intergenerational support within families is currently the major source of old age security in Chinese society. Analyses from both parents' and children's perspectives support the corporate group / mutual aid model, which largely sees the provision of help as dependent on ageing parents' needs and children's capacities. Although living away from children does not affect whether ageing parents receive economic help, it does constrain their receiving help on daily activities (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020516206 A
Classmark	P6: JFG: JQ: DP: SR: SS: 3F: 7DC
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