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1671 Does adult out-migration matter? The multi-dimensional well-being of elderly
parents ‘left behind’ by migrant children in India
Shinjini Ray, Pravat Bhandari, Rangasamy Nagarajan
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
Categories
13. Others (Education, Wellbeing and Happiness etc.)
Abstract
Obtaining data from a nationally representative survey of old-age population—Building a Knowledge Base on
Population Ageing in India (BKPAI) comprising 9852 older adults, the present study empirically evaluates different
dimensions of well-being among Indian elderly individuals left behind by their adult migrant children. In the present
study, we focus on five different dimensions of well-being among elderly, these are: physical well-being,
psychological well-being, subjective well-being, social well-being, and housing well-being. Data were analyzed
using propensity score matching technique. We used different types of matching methods, including nearest-
neighbor (within caliper), radius matching, and kernel matching. Findings suggest that the elderly individuals with
migrant children were more likely to attain better physical and subjective well-being whereas the migration of adult
children showed adverse effect on the psychological and social well-being indicators. However, results did not
show any statistically significant association between migration and housing well-being of left behind elderly. Given
the rising proportion of ageing population in India combined with an increasing trend in rural-urban adult
migration, our findings suggest that the policy makers should pay more attention on the migration status of children
to keep track on the psychological and social welfare among Indian older adults.
1448 Measuring and Evaluating Post-Disaster Recovery: A Case Study in Aceh and
North Sumatra Post-Tsunami
Ni Wayan Suriastini, Bondan S. Sikoki, Cecep Sukria Sumantri, Ika Yulia Wijayanti
SurveyMETER, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Categories
9. Population and Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Abstract
Despite the dynamic and long-term process, there is limited metric and longitudinal data to evaluate post-disaster
recovery. This paper presents the Disaster Recovery Index (DRI) as an alternative metric. We apply the index to the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami recovery case in Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia. Using two initial waves of the
Study of Tsunami and Aftermath Recovery (STAR), we find that the recovery trend changes from five months to
nineteen months after the tsunami. Recovery level in the medium and the heavy damage area increases by 2.05%
and 7.45%, while those in the light damage decrease by 0.33%. Sector recovery has similar quite trend except for
heavy damage area. Social sector reaches the highest level of recovery with the support of temporary health and
education facilities. Such good progress applies to the livelihood sector supported by the Cash for Work program.
Conversely, the environment sector becomes the least caused by the complexity degradation of planting area. DRI
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