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Ageing and changing patterns in familial structure for older persons in India
— a decomposition analysis | | Author(s) | Preeti Dhillon, Laishram Ladusingh, Gopal Agrawal |
| Journal title | Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol 17, no 2, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 83-96 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/qaoa.htm |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Household and family composition ; Demography ; India. |
| Annotation | At the turn of the twenty-first century, India is facing rapid population ageing, coupled with consequential socio-economic development changes. Against the backdrop of such changes, its traditional familial support system of living arrangements for older persons is swiftly changing, undergoing rapid transition towards nuclear family systems. This paper aims to discuss these issues. It examined, first, the changing trends and patterns in joint family systems defined in terms of households with older persons and total households; and second, socio-economic and demographic determinants of changes in the proportion of nuclear households with older adults. The decomposition analysis segregated the contribution of determinants of the change in nuclear households with older people into three different components: propensity, composition, and interaction. The study used data from three successive rounds of the National Family Health Survey. Results indicate that a lower proportion of households with older people were nuclear, compared to total households. However, for both types of households, nuclear households increased by nine percentage points during 1992-2006. Households with older people that were headed by old aged persons, illiterates or females, situated in urban area, not owned agriculture land, lower affluent level, and from Southern India were at most risk of being nuclear than their counterparts. This study provides ample evidence of the increase in nuclear familial structure for older people in the course of population ageing. Population ageing, urbanisation and increase in education, primarily contributed to the increase in nuclear family households of older persons. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170512206 A |
| Classmark | BG: K7:SJ: S8: 7FA |
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