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| Regional differences in living arrangements among the elderly in Equador | | Author(s) | Susan De Vos |
| Journal title | Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol 13, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 1-20 |
| Keywords | Living patterns ; Living with family ; Multi generational households ; Ecuador. |
| Annotation | On the national level in Ecuador in 1982 roughly 61% of older people lived in multigenerational family households, but this was 70% in the coastal region compared with only 54% in the mountain region. The regional differences could not be explained by standard demographic or socioeconomic characteristics available in the 1982 Census, either among all older people or older unmarried women. The author suggests that the regional differences may reflect underlying value and attitude differences not measured in the Census. As the marital structure of the adult population in the two areas has been quite different, consensual union being much more common in the coastal area than in the mountain region, perhaps there might be two different family systems at play. Such speculation will need to be addressed by future research. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981104401 A |
| Classmark | K7: KA:SJ: KA:SJC: 7WH |
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