The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak

As growing number of senior citizen would increase the dependency ratio and this would trigger the importance of caring the elderly in a way to support and provide more concern on them. The study of this topic is crucial to identify social factors that affecting economic status of the elderly in Sab...

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Main Author:	Derek Kho Lip Teck
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	HQ1060-1064 Aged Gerontology (Social aspects) Retirement
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spelling	my-ums-ep.374522023-10-02T07:24:02Z The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak 2013 Derek Kho Lip Teck HQ1060-1064 Aged. Gerontology (Social aspects). Retirement As growing number of senior citizen would increase the dependency ratio and this would trigger the importance of caring the elderly in a way to support and provide more concern on them. The study of this topic is crucial to identify social factors that affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak. The study employs Binary Logistics Regression to predict the social factors towards economic status of the elderly. A total sample of 205 data has been used to predict the Independent Variables (demography, level of education, living arrangement and health status) towards Dependent Variables (employment status and income status). In the key findings, the employment status was predicted and has a significant relationship with living arrangement and physical health status of the elderly. However, the income status was predicted by significant variables namely gender and level of education of senior citizen for primary level and secondary level of education. 2013 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37452/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37452/2/24%20PAGES.pdf text en public https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/37452/1/FULLTEXT.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah School of Business And Economics
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description	As growing number of senior citizen would increase the dependency ratio and this would trigger the importance of caring the elderly in a way to support and provide more concern on them. The study of this topic is crucial to identify social factors that affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak. The study employs Binary Logistics Regression to predict the social factors towards economic status of the elderly. A total sample of 205 data has been used to predict the Independent Variables (demography, level of education, living arrangement and health status) towards Dependent Variables (employment status and income status). In the key findings, the employment status was predicted and has a significant relationship with living arrangement and physical health status of the elderly. However, the income status was predicted by significant variables namely gender and level of education of senior citizen for primary level and secondary level of education.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Derek Kho Lip Teck
author_facet	Derek Kho Lip Teck
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title	The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak
title_short	The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak
title_full	The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak
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title_full_unstemmed	The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak
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publishDate	2013
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The social factors affecting economic status of the elderly in Sabah and Sarawak

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