title: Elderly migration: household versus individual approaches.
abstract: "This paper employs a household approach to elderly migration analyses and compares it with the traditional individual approach. The first part of the paper develops some concepts about household mobility and relates them to individual mobility. It then compares the two mobility measurements in a case study using the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) from the 1990 [U.S.] Census. The results show that the mean household size for the elderly moving together tends to be smaller than that for elderly stayers. It also demonstrates the utility of the household approach on profiling elderly movers' living arrangement choices. The second part of the paper calibrates a set of discrete choice models based on the household and individual approaches."
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000569:Americas; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Americas; Case Studies; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Family And Household; Geographic Factors; Households; Living Arrangements--determinants; Migrants; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; Nonmigrants; North America; Northern America; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Residence Characteristics; Residential Mobility; Spatial Distribution; Studies; United States