Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clear the regional characteristics of the structure of households with elderly by residential style. Drawing on data from the Population Census and Housing Survey, we estimate the households that they live with elderly. And it is to classify 47 prefectures of Japan according to the residential style of households with elderly. The result show that the proportion of owned households that they have living with elderly is 85 per cent. And the proportion of owned households that they have living with elderly has been decreasing and that of the old single and the elderly couple has been increasing in almost area. And there is the area where the number of stem family is increasing during 1983 to 1993.
