Abstract
This study uses the logit model through questionnaire data of Beijing in 2019 to investigate the participation willingness of online timebank elderly care, especially to discover different influencing factors on the participation willingness between the youth group and the elderly group. We find that: First, the health status of elderly people and the number of elder families of young people have significant positive impacts on their willingness to participate in online timebank. Second, the experience of participating in voluntary activities has a significant positive effect and it has a far greater impact in the young group than that in the elderly group. Third, the more the free time, the higher the participation willingness in the young group, but it is the opposite in the elderly group. Fourth, the years of education and party member have significant promoting effects on the participation willingness in both groups. Such heterogeneous influencing factors can help develop online timebank nursing for dealing with the increasingly serious population aging problem in China and also other developing countries.
Highlights
The process of population aging in China is accelerating, especially in big cities
Good = 1, bad = 0 Whether you have participated in volunteer activities before Free time every day
Education level has a significant impact on the participation willingness of the elderly, in the survey process we found that it presents a polarized effect, which means for the elderly with a degree below the elementary school, or a graduate degree or above, the participation willingness is lower than those with an intermediate education level
Summary
By the end of 2019, the number of elderly people over 60 years old has reached 254 million, accounting for 18.1% of the Chinese total population. Taking the capital city Beijing as an example, the city’s registered elderly population above 60 years old is ∼3.49 million, accounting for 25.4% of the city’s total population. With the increase of one-child families and a large number of young adults leaving the country to work in cities, the proportion of empty nest families in China has increased sharply. Due to the implementation of the family planning and one-child policy for many years, the proportion of young people in China has decreased rapidly, and the feature “old before getting rich” has emerged in China, that is, people’s income has not reached a certain level but the aging problem is becoming more and more serious. China’s newborn falls abruptly in 2020.1.76 million fewer
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