@article{Glasgow:334322,
      recid = {334322},
      author = {Glasgow, Nina},
      title = {The Nonmetro Elderly:  Economic and Demographic Status},
      address = {1988-06},
      number = {2487-2023-612},
      series = {Rural Development Research Report No. 70},
      pages = {42},
      year = {1988},
      note = {This report compares the demographic, social, and economic  characteristics of older people living in nonmetro areas  with those living in metro areas.  By use of the tools of  regression analysis, it also presents findings on the  extent to which the place of residence accounts for the  economic well-being of older people compared with other  factors. },
      abstract = {A disproportionate share of the U.S. elderly population  lives in nonmetro areas and has substantially more poverty  than the metro elderly population.  The nonmetro elderly's  poverty rate was 21 percent in 1980 versus 13 percent for  metro elderly, while median incomes were $4,111 versus  $5,003.  Lower personal incomes of the nonmetro elderly,  regression analysis suggests, are explained more by their  characteristics (such as low educational attainment, low  occupational status, and not working) than by place of  residence.  Living without relatives or alone was the major  factor contributing to poverty.  Long-term care, welfare,  and local planning to meet the elderly's needs take on  added importance in rural areas where the Nation's trend  toward a rapidly growing elderly population is exacerbated  by lower incomes of nonmetro people. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/334322},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.334322},
}