抄録
Recent studies have begun to consider the proximity of young mothers to their parents and examining whether the close proximity improves the mothers' employment conditions. Such studies have consequently concluded that the result of any analysis supports a higher probability of gaining employment for mothers who are living close to their own or their husbands’ parents. This paper aims to identify factors affecting this close proximity through the analyses of data regarding social aspects in Social Indicators and Housing and Land Survey of Japan. Through these analyses, variables such as dual-income households, hours of female working, and salaries of female part-time workers were found to not be significant as independent variables in the regression models. However, the factors that were found to affect the close proximity of the households of single older adults to their children were determined to be the child dependency ratio [positive], the ratio of family nuclei households [positive], the ratio of persons in primary industry [negative], and the number of retail stores per 1,000 persons [positive] at the prefectural level. In other words, if parents have young children in their family nuclei households, and if their single older parents are not working in a primary industry, the single older parent is more likely to live close to their adult children. In addition to this, the number of retail stores was accepted as an independent variable because such close proximity of households is common in more urbanized areas than rural areas.
