Zimmer Zachary, Dayton Julia
Population Council, New York, NY 10017, USA.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2005 Nov;59(3):295-312. doi: 10.1080/00324720500212255.
Using data from Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the composition of households containing older adults in 24 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on those living with children and grandchildren. Overall, 59 per cent live with a child and 46 per cent with a grandchild. Men are more likely to live in nuclear households and women in extended households and alone. Regression analyses show that individual-level determinants of household composition differ by sex. For example, living with children and grandchildren is tied to living with a spouse for men, but for women the effect is either not significant or in the opposite direction. Households with an older adult and a grandchild, but no adult children, are common. Usually the adult child lives elsewhere, though about 8 per cent of older adults live with a grandchild who has at least one deceased parent. Older adults are more likely to be living with double-orphans in countries with high AIDS-related mortality.
利用人口与健康调查的数据，我们研究了撒哈拉以南非洲24个国家中包含老年人的家庭构成，重点关注与子女和孙辈同住的家庭。总体而言，59%的老年人与子女同住，46%与孙辈同住。男性更有可能生活在核心家庭，而女性则更多生活在大家庭或独自生活。回归分析表明，家庭构成的个体层面决定因素因性别而异。例如，对男性来说，与子女和孙辈同住与与配偶同住有关，但对女性来说，这种影响要么不显著，要么方向相反。有老年人和孙辈但没有成年子女的家庭很常见。通常成年子女住在其他地方，不过约8%的老年人与至少有一位已故父母的孙辈同住。在与艾滋病相关死亡率高的国家，老年人更有可能与双亲已故的孤儿同住。
