Estimating the incidence of widow and widower re-marriages in India from census data

Bhat, Meghashyam; Kanbargi, R

doi:10.1080/00324728.1984.10412824

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“…Based on published studies, one can assume a rate of remarriage after being widowed of 6–20% for women and 60–65% for men of all ages over their remaining life span in South India. [40] Unfortunately, no reports of how an existing disability affects rates of remarriage in India are available. Thus, reported rates only reflect rates of remarriage in the general population.…”

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The Impact of Successful Cataract Surgery on Quality of Life, Household Income and Social Status in South India

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BackgroundTo explore the hypothesis that sight restoring cataract surgery provided to impoverished rural communities will improve not only visual acuity and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) but also poverty and social status.MethodsParticipants were recruited at outreach camps in Tamil Nadu, South India, and underwent free routine manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS) with intra-ocular lens (IOL) implantation, and were followed up one year later. Poverty was measured as monthly household income, being engaged in income generating activities and number of working household members. Social status was measured as rates of re-marriage amongst widowed participants. VRQoL was measured using the IND-VFQ-33. Associations were explored using logistic regression (SPSS 19).ResultsOf the 294 participants, mean age ± standard deviation (SD) 60±8 years, 54% men, only 11% remained vision impaired at follow up (67% at baseline; p<0.001). At one year, more participants were engaged in income generating activities (44.7% to 77.7%; p<0.001) and the proportion of households with a monthly income <1000 Rps. decreased from 50.5% to 20.5% (p<0.05). Overall VRQoL improved (p<0.001). Participants who had successful cataract surgery were less likely to remain in the lower categories of monthly household income (OR 0.05–0.22; p<0.02) and more likely to be engaged in income earning activities one year after surgery (OR 3.28; p = 0.006). Participants widowed at baseline who had successful cataract surgery were less likely to remain widowed at one year (OR 0.02; p = 0.008).ConclusionThese findings indicate the broad positive impact of sight restoring cataract surgery on the recipients’ as well as their families’ lives. Providing free high quality cataract surgery to marginalized rural communities will not only alleviate avoidable blindness but also - to some extent - poverty in the long run.

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“…However, overall, our results compare well to other studies as well as studies assessing rates of re-marriage based on Indian census data. [40].…”

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The Impact of Successful Cataract Surgery on Quality of Life, Household Income and Social Status in South India

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“…Agarwala (1970) finds that 60 percent of widowers in Delhi remarry, compared to 37 percent for women, and United Nations (1961) estimate the rates at 60 and 10 percent respectively in rural Mysore (Karnataka). Bhat and Kanbargi (1984) estimate 63 and 34 percent remarriage rates for men and women across all India, using information on current marital status and applying a cohort-based inferential technique to census data. 4.…”

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Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India

Jensen¹

2005

Analyses in the Economics of Aging

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“…With the death of the spouse, the elderly widowed women face certain disadvantages that re ect in the social role, access to resources, and social and economic dependency [28][29][30]. Moreover, widowed women experience structural alienation from her parental family and changes in the family ties [16,31].…”

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Marital Status, Sex and Utilisation of Healthcare Service Among the Older Adults in India

Hossain¹,

James²,

Rana³

2020

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Background: The association between marital status and health status among the elderly has been at the forefront of investigation for a long time. However, the study on the effects of marital status on health care utilisation is limited. This study assesses the association between use of inpatient health services and marital status among older adults in India from the perspective of sex. Methods: Data used in the study have been obtained from the 75th Round of National Sample Survey (NSS) on "Social Consumption: Health" with the sample size of 42,762 individuals aged 60 years or above. The study implements the Andersen's behavioural framework controlling the predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics and uses binary logistic regression models to assess the effect of marital status on inpatient health service. Results: There is a significant difference in inpatient healthcare use between married and widowed elderly by age, educational level, perceived health and mobility for both sexes. The unadjusted regression analysis shows that widowed are more likely to use inpatient health services both for women (OR=1.57; CI 95%= 1.47, 1.68) and men (OR=1.11; CI 95%= 1.02, 1.2). However, after controlling the predisposing, enabling, and need factors, a strong association between healthcare services and marital status has been found for women, but not for men. Widowed women (OR=1.43; CI 95%=1.33, 1.54) are more likely to use inpatient health care than married women. Conclusion: The present study has reported the association between the utilisation of inpatient health services and marital status for the elderly in India. Our study advocates that there is a sex difference in the utilisation of inpatient health services by the marital Status in India. Older widowed women should get more focus on health and elderly policy perspectives.

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Estimating the incidence of widow and widower re-marriages in India from census data

Cited by 10 publications

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The Impact of Successful Cataract Surgery on Quality of Life, Household Income and Social Status in South India

The Impact of Successful Cataract Surgery on Quality of Life, Household Income and Social Status in South India

Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India

Marital Status, Sex and Utilisation of Healthcare Service Among the Older Adults in India

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