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Active Ageing Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis of the Older Europeans

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This chapter focuses on the social participation domain of the active ageing framework and considers participation in different care (e.g., to grandchildren) and non-care (e.g., voluntary work) activities. By using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and by applying Latent Class Analysis, the analyses identify three clusters of older people with similar patterns of social participation that vary by the type of activities in which they engage and the intensity of engagement. It is found that women are considerably more likely than men to belong to the group engaged in high intensive care. It is also found that people older than 76 years show high probabilities of not being engaged in social activities.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/archives/ey2012/ey2012main9ef0.html

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    Here we exclude unemployed and housekeepers because of their relatively small sample sizes. They are however included in the LCA analysis.

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  1. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Bruno Arpino

  2. University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Valeria Bordone

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  1. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

    Asghar Zaidi

  2. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Sarah Harper

  3. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Kenneth Howse

  4. INRCA National Institute of Health and Science on Aging, Ancona, Italy

    Giovanni Lamura

  5. Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Kraków, Poland

    Jolanta Perek-Białas

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Table 14.4 Conditional item responses probabilities for each manifest variable and latent class
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Arpino, B., Bordone, V. (2018). Active Ageing Typologies: A Latent Class Analysis of the Older Europeans. In: Zaidi, A., Harper, S., Howse, K., Lamura, G., Perek-Białas, J. (eds) Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6017-5_14

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