Journal of Population Sciences
From: Grandparents in Italy: trends and changes in the demography of grandparenthood from 1998 to 2016
Grandparents | Non-grandparents | |||||||
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1998 | 2003 | 2009 | 2016 | 1998 | 2003 | 2009 | 2016 | |
Sample | 9,518 | 10,274 | 9,643 | 6,222 | 22,070 | 19,810 | 18,363 | 13,414 |
(%) | (33.3) | (33.2) | (33.1) | (31.5) | (66.7) | (66.8) | (66.9) | (68.5) |
% Women | 60.4 | 60.0 | 60.1 | 59.5 | 49.5 | 49.7 | 49.4 | 49.7 |
Mean age | 68.3 | 69.1 | 70.1 | 70.9 | 50.1 | 50.2 | 50.5 | 52.2 |
(SD) | (10.1) | (10.2) | (10.5) | (10.7) | (11.8) | (12.1) | (12.0) | (12.6) |
Marital status (%) | ||||||||
Never married | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 13.3 | 15.6 | 18.1 | 21.7 |
Married | 68.4 | 68.2 | 67.4 | 66.7 | 76.5 | 71.5 | 67.6 | 62.1 |
Separated | 1.6 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 6.6 |
Divorced | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 4.4 |
Widowed | 28.4 | 28.0 | 26.6 | 25.8 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
Education level (%) | ||||||||
Tertiary | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 9.9 | 10.8 | 14.6 | 16.3 |
High sec | 8.6 | 10.0 | 13.7 | 17.5 | 30.7 | 33.5 | 37.7 | 39.3 |
Low sec | 12.3 | 16.0 | 22.0 | 28.2 | 28.8 | 33.3 | 31.7 | 32.5 |
rimary | 51.8 | 51.9 | 45.8 | 41.3 | 25.7 | 19.0 | 13.6 | 9.7 |
No education | 24.6 | 19.4 | 14.8 | 8.7 | 4.9 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 2.2 |
Working status (%) | ||||||||
Employed | 10.9 | 11.2 | 10.9 | 11.6 | 55.2 | 58.2 | 59.4 | 57.4 |
Unemployed | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 6.1 | 4.5 |
Homemaker | 27.6 | 23.8 | 25.6 | 23.4 | 19.5 | 17.2 | 16.4 | 15.6 |
Retired | 53.5 | 57.5 | 55.7 | 58.5 | 19.2 | 17.9 | 15.0 | 17.6 |
Other | 7.5 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 5.0 |
% Having own income | 84.4 | 85.0 | 84.5 | 83.9 | 80.5 | 82.0 | 82.5 | 82.2 |
% Home ownership | 75.5 | 75.4 | 77.5 | 75.8 | 73.5 | 74.4 | 74.1 | 71.7 |
Area of residence (%) | ||||||||
North | 44.5 | 44.3 | 44.1 | 44.8 | 48.1 | 48.3 | 48.5 | 47.7 |
Centre | 21.1 | 21.0 | 21.4 | 19.7 | 19.6 | 19.5 | 19.7 | 20.6 |
South and Islands | 34.4 | 34.7 | 34.5 | 35.6 | 32.3 | 32.2 | 31.8 | 31.7 |
% Foreign-born | 1.5 | 1.7 | n.a | 5.6 | 2.6 | 4.0 | n.a | 10.8 |
Chronic disease (% at least 1) | 17.7 | 18.2 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 5.7 | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.7 |