Fertility and Household Status of Older Women in Canada, 1971

This paper examines the determinants of non-institutional living arrangements among elderly women who are no longer married using 1971 Canadian census data. In particular the validity of Kobrins...hypothesis that the rise of elderly women who are primary individuals is in part due to the unavailability of adult daughters with whom to co-reside is investigated. Number of children ever born surfaces as the major determinant although education age personal income and the interaction between fertility and income are also statistically significant. (summary in FRE) (EXCERPT)