Elderly Living Arrangements in Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, and Romania

Using unique 1990-round census microdata, thepaper describes the household arrangements ofelderly people in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,Estonia, Finland and Romania. We overview suchtopics as institutionalization, ``headship'rates, ``relationship to reference person,'general household composition, and solitaryliving. Few elders in any country lived withrelatives other than children or spouses. However, elder living arrangements in Finlandexhibit a more ``Northern European' pattern,those in Bulgaria and Romania a ``SoutheasternEuropean' pattern and those in the CzechRepublic a somewhat intermediate pattern. Thesituation in Estonia seemed again distinct.