Populations of New Zealand and Australia at the Millennium

A joint Special Issue of the Journal of Population Research and the New Zealand Population Review

Edited by Gordon A. Carmichael with A. Dharmalingam

Published September 2002
ISBN 0-9578572-1-7

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LIVING ARRANGEMENTS AND ETHNICITY OF AUSTRALIA’S OLDER POPULATION*
John Paice, Australian Bureau of Statistics

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Abstract
This article describes the living arrangements and ethnicity of Australia’s older population (persons aged 65 years or older) up to the 2020s. The impact of trends in living arrangements, as projected from trends that occurred during 1986–96, on numbers in particular living arrangement categories is likely to be relatively minor compared to the impact Baby Boomers will have as they age. Of particular concern, given the support provided to older people by spouses, are projected large increases in persons living alone and in nonprivate dwellings. With respect to ethnicity, the effects of the ageing of post Second World War immigration intakes are explored.

* Copyright Commonwealth of Australia.

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