One-person households in India

Dommaraju, Premchand

doi:10.4054/demres.2015.32.45

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“…Older people running one-person households are a heterogeneous group because of their different socio-economic and demographic characteristics, which affects the different living standards in these households. This statement is also confirmed by other studies review [62][63][64][65].…”

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Living Standards in One-Person Households of the Elderly Population

Piekut

2020

Sustainability

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The number of one-person households of the elderly continues to rise in developed countries. The study assesses the standard of living in this type of households. The aim of this study is to explore the standard of living of single older adults (60+) in Poland by focusing on the relationship between demographic and socio-economic factors as well as their objective financial situation and subjective satisfaction on their financial and consumption standards. To evaluate the standard of living in one-person households run by people aged 60 and over, the aggregate (composite) indicator was designed, based on the Economic Living Standard Index method. The key issues relating to multifaceted aspects of sustainable development are both the level and the quality of life. It can be concluded that the elderly people running one-person households constitute a group that is heterogeneous due to their different socio-economic and demographic characteristics, which in turn affect their various living standards. The highest standard of living can be noticed in the households run by white-collar workers, self-employed persons and well educated persons. The lowest standard of living can be observed in the households run by groups of people including farmers, people having income from social sources (without pensions), living on supplementary welfare allowance and persons with lower education level (secondary, primary or less). Remedial measures should be taken for these social groups. The key factors determining the standard of living in one-person households of the elderly are socioeconomic status and education level.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Living Standards in One-Person Households of the Elderly Population

Piekut

2020

Sustainability

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“…A key reason that even those who seem to have resisted marriage maintain such a strong ambivalence about their singlehood is that living singly is not a normal, familiar, unremarked part of habitus for most in India. This is in striking contrast to current trends in the United States (Klinenberg 2012;Traister 2016), where numbers alone reveal a lot: People who live alone make up 28% of all US households (Klinenberg 2012, 4-5), while only 3.7% of households in India are single-person (Dommaraju 2015(Dommaraju , 1246. For most in India, living with family is key to normal personhood, and for women marriage is the central means of making and keeping one part of a family.…”

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confidence: 78%

Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Lamb¹

2018

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This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surrounding individualist versus relational personhood. Because they are positioned outside the norm, those who live singly offer an unusually insightful perspective on their wider society's values and institutions. In these ways, the narratives of three single women and others each illuminate their tellers’ intricate subjectivities as well as offer broader social‐cultural critique. Their stories reveal the ambiguity, painful consequences, and sometimes hopefulness surrounding the “choice” to be single for women and suggest that social recognition and belonging are even more important than independence and true singlehood in the lives of those who live outside marriage in India. [belonging, class, gender, self, sexuality, marriage]

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“…Spousal or partner mortality often leads to solo living. People's fertility histories may have also implications for co‐residence in later life, especially today when levels of childlessness are very high in parts of the world (Dommaraju ; Hayford ; Reher and Requena , ). Never‐married, divorced, widowed, and childless people earmarked for living alone in later life are a potential burden both for their families and for health and care systems.…”

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Living Alone over the Life Course: Cross‐National Variations on an Emerging Issue

Esteve¹,

Reher²,

Treviño³

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Population & Development Rev

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The increasing proportion of persons living alone has come to be emblematic in many ways of modern Western societies because it represents the importance conceded to the individual and to individual goals at the expense, basically, of the family. Solo living has been interpreted within the context of changing values and preferences, changing personal and conjugal realities, and the changing work contexts so often associated with the Second Demographic Transition. We know little about patterns and trends in living alone over the life course in much of the world because most research to date has concentrated on regional and national portrayals or on living arrangements in later life. This study provides a systematic look at the differences in living alone by age and sex in 113 countries. Our aim is to understand the extent to which behavior differs around the world and the implications this has for society. We also examine the relationship between trends in living alone and levels of human development. Results are taken from three massive datasets: census and survey microdata from IPUMS‐international, Demographic Health Surveys, and EU‐Labor Force Surveys.

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One-person households in India

Cited by 33 publications

References 43 publications

Living Standards in One-Person Households of the Elderly Population

Living Standards in One-Person Households of the Elderly Population

Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Living Alone over the Life Course: Cross‐National Variations on an Emerging Issue

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