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Time use of old and very old Berliners
— productive and consumptive activities as functions of resources | | Author(s) | Petra L Klumb, Margret M Baltes |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 54B, no 5, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp S271-278 |
| Keywords | Over 70s ; Activities of older people ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Mobility ; Employment of older people ; Germany. |
| Annotation | The aims of this Berlin study were to examine older men's and women's time use, and to explain age- and gender-related variance in activity levels in terms of differences in available resources. Activities reported in a sample of 485 people aged 70 to 103 stratified by age and gender were aggregated into three classes: regenerative, productive and consumptive activities, and regressed on income, presence of a partner in the household, education, walking mobility, and labour force participation. Levels in productive and consumptive activities were decreased in the old-old. Moreover, young-old women spent more time working in the household than any other group. Most of the age- and gender-related variance in activity levels could be explained by differences in available resources. For men, living with a partner was associated with less time spent for productive activities and enhanced leisure time, whereas for women the reverse was observed. The expected reduction of unpaid work time as a function of income (income effect) was not observed. Allocation of time to productive and consumptive activities is a function of available resources, and differs by age group and gender. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991220226 A |
| Classmark | BBK: G: F: K7: C4: GC: 767 |
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