Recent change in prevalence of parent-child co-residence in Japan.
"Co-residence of parents and grown-up (especially married) children has been one of the most important factors that affect the trends in household formation in recent Japan.  This article reports the proportion co-residing...using a nation-wide large-sample household survey data set containing about 300,000 persons in each year.... The proportion of parents who co-reside with children...had remarkably decreased during the period 1975 to 1985, especially for younger elders regardless of their marital status.... On the contrary, the proportion  co-residing of married children aged 20-39 with their parents had been constant or slightly rising...during the same period. These two opposite trends can be interpreted as follows: though the preference for co-residence has declined both for parents and for children, the child availability for parents has barely changed and the downward trend in preference has directly appeared [in] the proportion co-residing; while the parent availability for children has increased owing to the decrease in number of siblings to be balanced with the decreasing preference." (SUMMARY IN JPN)
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D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D007564:Japan; D017533:Marital Status; D008393:Marriage; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011584:Psychology; D012111:Residence Characteristics
Age Factors; Asia; Attitude; Behavior; Cohort Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Extended Family; Family And Household--changes; Family Characteristics--changes; Geographic Factors; Households; Japan; Marital Status; Nuptiality; Population; Population Characteristics; Psychological Factors; Residence Characteristics; Spatial Distribution