A Research Of The Living Arrangement Preferences And Its Influence Factors Of Rural Elderly

Older people's preference of living arrangement is an important factor whether the old can obtain good care or not, and can show some aspects of the old's endowment pattern at some extend. Older people's preference of living arrangement is an important factor that determines their choice of settled down, but it didn't always work like that. Therefore the research of older people's living preference and its influencing factors can help us to get a better understanding of the old's need and improve their benefit when they are old.This paper uses the 2011-2012 national baseline investigation data of CHARLS, which is shorted for China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, to analyses the factors that influence the rural 60 or older people's living arrangement preferences. Under the premise of distinguishing whether the old have their spouses or not, the research adopts contingency tables to assess the association between the old's living arrangement preferences and the potential influencing factors, and then uses Logistic regression model to identify significant factors that determining the living arrangement preferences.The results show clearly that rural elderly prefer to live with their children or at least live close to them. On the condition of having their spouses accompanied, the old who depend on their children to support them and those who show severely inability in performing instrumental activities of daily life tend to choose to live together with their children. They also show that the middle aged, the old with their spouses accompanied and the old with mild or severe depression and whose children have non-agricultural Hukou prefer not to live with their children. On the condition that they have lost their spouses, the old who are suffering from slightly or severely inability in the activities of daily life all prefer to live with their children. Compared with those have their spouses accompanied, the old who are severely inability in the activities of daily life have stronger desire to live with their children. The old with mild or severe depression prefer not to live with their children. However, those whose children have non-agricultural Hukou, they have a lower probability of choosing to live with their children, compared with the old who have their spouses accompanied.