社会经济地位差异下的老年人口居住安排——基于家庭代际支持视角的研究

The Living Arrangement of the Elderly Population Under the Difference of Socioeconomic Status——From the Perspective of Family Inter-generational Support

研究老年人口与子女社会经济地位对同住安排的影响,能够在微观层次上探究代际支持的作用,寻找中国家庭制度变迁的脉络。基于中国健康与养老追踪调查数据库,通过建立包含父辈特征、子女特征以及社会经济地位特征的分析模型解释老年居住安排的主要影响因素。对存在与子女同住偏好样本的进一步分析中,父辈健康、子女受教育水平对农村老年人口实际居住安排有显著负向作用,而对城镇老年人口实际居住安排却没有显著作用。

The main purpose of the article is to study the impact of the socioeconomic status of the elderly population and their children on the living arrangements, and to explore the impact of intergenerational support on the living arrangements at the micro level, so as to find the context of the changes in the Chinese family system. Based on the Chinese health and pension tracking database, the paper analyzes the main influencing factors of elderly living arrangements by establishing an analytical model that includes parental characteristics, children’s characteristics and socioeconomic status. The results show that the educational level and income variables of the parents are positively correlated with the actual living arrangement of the elderly population. The average income level of the children shows a significant positive correlation with the actual living arrangement of the elderly population, There was a significant negative correlation between the number of years of education, the number of married children and the actual living arrangement of the elderly population. The socioeconomic status variables show a significant negative correlation with the actual living arrangement of the elderly population. In the further analysis, there is a significant positive effect on the actual living arrangement of the elderly population in the urban and rural areas, and the actual income of the children is significantly higher than that of the urban elderly, while the actual living arrangements for rural elderly population has no significant effect.