Abstract
With the rapid increase in the ageing population (60+) in China since 1999, the problem of supporting the aged is facing increasingly severe challenges. Based on the 2072 valid samples from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) of 2017, a non-sequential multinomial logistic regression model was established to analyse the changing trends and micro-influencing factors of Chinese people’s cognition of old-age care responsibility (COACR). The result shows that offspring responsibility still is a common COACR, but this concept has been gradually weakened and been replaced by the responsibility of the government and the aged. Individual characteristics and relationships with relatives in the models all significantly affect people’s COACR. It is obviously unrealistic for China to completely rely on government and society to provide for the aged. The traditional ethical role of inter-generational responsibility in providing for the aged should be brought into play. Reshaping the inter-generational responsibility ethics of old-age care requires the joint efforts of government, society, families, individuals and other responsible subjects to construct a diversified old-age care service system.
Highlights
According to the forecast report issued by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2017), the world population will increase from 7.6 billion at present to 9.8 billion by 2050 [1]
In terms of birth year, in model I and model III, those born before 1948 attribute old-age care responsibility (OACR) to offspring and the Three Parties 0.23 times (e−1.478) and 0.3 times (e−1.195) respectively as much as those born after 1979
It indicates that those born before1948 prefers government to assume OACR
Summary
According to the forecast report issued by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2017), the world population will increase from 7.6 billion at present to 9.8 billion by 2050 [1]. According to the authoritative data released by the National Bureau of Statistics in January 2018, by the end of 2017, the population aged 60 and over in China had reached 240.9 million, accounting for 17.3% of the country’s total population [4]. Among this population, 158.31 million were aged 65 or above, accounting for 11.4% of the total population. China’s problem of supporting the aged is facing increasingly severe challenges, and “who should provide for the aged” has become a problem that people must consider
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