title: Co-residence of household heads with parents in Japan: a multivariate explanation.
abstract: "This paper uses a multivariate logit model to study the factors affecting the Japanese household heads' propensities to co-reside with elderly parents, based on the micro data of a 1986 national survey. Our major findings are as follows. The most important factors are (1) inheritance of house or residential land from parent; (2) parent's spouseless status and age; (3) household head's sibling status; and (4) household head's nativity status. In a multivariate context, the negative effect of the household head's level of education was significant but not very important, whereas the presence of a working wife with child had a very weak positive effect on the co-residence with parent. Our overall conclusion is that the intergenerational co-residence in Japan is strongly affected by cultural norms and has a strong rational (economic) basis."
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D007564:Japan; D010067:Ownership; D010290:Parents; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014918:Wills
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Asia; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Geographic Factors; Head Of Household; Households; Inheritance; Japan; Living Arrangements--determinants; Ownership; Parents; Population; Population Characteristics; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution