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Living arrangements and intergenerational monetary transfers of older Chinese
- TAICHANG CHEN, GEORGE W. LEESON, CHANGPING LIU
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- Ageing & Society / Volume 37 / Issue 9 / October 2017
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- 23 June 2016, pp. 1798-1823
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- October 2017
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Previous studies show a decline in parent–child co-residence among the elderly. This study examined the effect of living away from adult children on upward intergenerational monetary transfers by analysing a 2006 survey of 19,947 persons aged 60 and above and selected from 20 provinces in China. Results indicate that elderly who were not co-residing but had at least one adult child living in another community/village within the city/county were likely to receive more intergenerational monetary transfers than those who were living with children. Living close to children, rather than co-residing with them, might be the primary living arrangement for older Chinese people in the foreseeable future. The findings have important programme and policy implications for countries such as China, which has the largest elderly population in the world. There is a strong need for the development of specific public care support systems focused on the elderly population, in general, and elderly in rural areas, in particular.
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- Essential Clinical Anesthesia
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2 - Future Ageing in Southeast Asia: Demographic Trends, Human Capital, and Health Status
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- By Wolfgang Lutz, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, Samir K.C., International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, Hafiz T. A. Khan, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University, Sergei Scherbov, Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, George W. Leeson, Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford University
- Edited by Evi Nurvidya Arifin, Aris Ananta Ananta
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- Older Persons in Southeast Asia
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- 21 October 2015
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Summary
Introduction
This chapter will try to draw a bigger picture about the likely future changes in age distribution in the countries of Southeast Asia, and highlight some key dimensions of the expected population ageing. It will focus on the demographic core of population ageing and also cover the changing education and health distributions of the population which are key dimensions for assessing the likely implications of these trends for individual countries. We will do so not in the conventional way of presenting already existing population projections for different countries (for example, taken from the U.N. population projections or national projections), but rather we will present innovative methods of population projections, such as probabilistic projections and multistate projections, and combine them with unique new data from a global ageing survey conducted by the Oxford Institute of Ageing funded by HSBC. These new data, combined with those more sophisticated projection methods, will allow us to address some of the key challenges of population ageing much more directly. We will present these analyses here for a few selected countries.
The chapter will be structured in the following way: First we present some new probabilistic population projections for Southeast Asia and specifically for Singapore. While these provide a comprehensive picture of what is likely and what is uncertain in terms of future population size and structures by age and sex, the ensuing sections of the paper also consider the changing educational structure of the population, which has major impacts ranging from effects on demographic trends themselves, to effects on health and income, among others. In the remainder of the chapter, we take a closer look at expected future trends in health and disability and how the explicit consideration of educational health differentials, together with a changing educational composition of the population, influences the outlook for ageing-related health concerns.
Probabilistic Population Projections for Southeast Asia and Singapore
There has been a major upsurge in probabilistic population projections recently because this field offers several advantages compared with conventional population projection variants or scenarios. As compared to the traditional U.N. high-medium-low variants, which are based only on alternative fertility assumptions and otherwise consider identical mortality and migration assumptions, probabilistic population projections consider the full range of uncertainties in all three demographic components of change.