CHANGE IN ELDERLY HOUSEHOLDS: RACE/ETHNIC COMPARISONS

这项建议的主要目的是评估老年人的生活 在两个重要的政策和研究方面的安排 问题：（1）不同年龄的老年人在居住安排上的差异 组（例如，老，老，老。 种族/民族群体（例如，非西班牙裔白人，黑人， 西班牙裔），在不同的老龄化模式的背景下;和（2） 私人和公共经济资源之间的平衡， 支持老年人，特别是由于这种平衡的结果， 年龄或种族/民族的差异。 这些问题 纳入对老年人家庭的三步分析 在当代美国。 在分析的第一步中， 1960年至1985年老年人的家庭组成 使用人口普查和调查数据进行分析。 的主要目标 这一步骤是（a）提供严格估计的模式， 按年龄和种族/族裔群体划分家庭组成，这项任务 将受益于这些数据中提供的大样本;以及（B） 对以下地区的家庭组成差异进行估计： 选择出生队列，这是一项只能使用 在很长一段时间内的大型国家数据集。 这 分析的一步提供了关于历史的见解， 建立老年家庭行为的“社会模式”， 模型可能因队列和种族/民族而异。 的 分析的第二步涉及几个重要问题， 家庭组成预测器的集合（例如，人口 特征、经济资源、健康和家庭 资源），使用收入和计划调查的数据 参与（SIPP）。 这一分析预计将受益于 更详细的经济和卫生措施， SIPP，并提供对 家庭组成。 在分析的第三步中， 对改变住户问题采取的办法， 我们的目标是提供新的信息， 经历家庭变化的时间， 相对于其他个体变化的时间变化， 尤其是经济地位的变化。 在最后一段中， 分析所有三个步骤的组合将集中在 对老年人口中“最年长者”部分的分析， 目标是确定差异和相似之处， 各年龄段家庭组成的决定因素 跨度。

The primary objective of this proposal is to assess elderly living arrangements in terms of two important policy and research issues: (1) differences in elderly living arrangements among age groups (e.g., young-old versus old-old) and among three race/ethnic groups (e.g., non-Hispanic whites, blacks, and Hispanics), in the context of different patterns of aging; and (2) the balance between private and public economic resources in the support of elderly individuals, particularly as this balance results in differences by age or race/ethnicity. These issues are incorporated into a three-step analysis of elderly household composition in the contemporary United States. In the first step of the analysis, patterns of and changes in household composition among the elderly between 1960 and 1985 are analyzed, using census and survey data. The major goals of this step are (a) to provide rigorous estimates of the patterns of household composition for age and race/ethnic groups, a task that will benefit from the large samples provided in these data; and (b) to generate estimates of differences in household composition for selected birth cohorts, a task that can only be accomplished using large national data sets across an extended period of time. This step of the analysis provides insights as to the historical establishment of "social models" of household behavior in old age, models which likely vary by cohort and race/ethnicity. The second step of the analysis addresses the importance of several sets of household composition predictors (e.g., demographic characteristics, economic resources, health, and family resources), using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This analysis is expected to benefit from the more detailed economic and health measures available in the SIPP, and to provide estimates of individual transitions in household composition. In the third step of the analysis a hazards approach to the issue of household change is implemented, with the goal of providing new information on not only the likelihoods of experiencing household change but also the timing of those changes relative to the timing of other individual changes, especially changes in economic status. In a final segment of the analysis a combination of all three steps will be focused on the analysis of the "oldest-old" portion of the elderly population, with the goal of identifying differences and similarities in determinants of household composition across the elderly age span.