Living arrangements of poor older Malaysians by sex-disaggregation

• Main Authors: Zainalaludin, Zumilah, Saidi, Norehan
• Format: Article
• Published: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences 2022
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102101/; https://eds.p.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=521e6938-ff69-42a4-bcc2-446b2b1701a6%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXNzbyZzaXRlPWVkcy1saXZl#AN=160927168&db=asx
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This paper reports on living arrangements predict poor older Malaysians by sex disaggregation. The respondents in this paper are 60 years old and above in 2016, to a total n=2467 (50.8% men, and 49.2% female) from 91 districts in Malaysia. The majority poor male (64.92%), and female (60.3%) respondents are living with children. Three types of significant (p<0.05) living arrangements predict poor male respondents are living with-spouse-only (odd=8.357) with children (odd=5.141), and with relative (odd=2.514). Three types of significant (p<0.05) living arrangements predict poor female respondents are living with-spouse-only (odd=53.333) with children (odd=8.69), and with relative (odd=3.257).