Grandparents Day
This weekend the USA celebrates Grandparents Day. It originated with Marian McQuade of West Virginia. Her primary motivation was to champion the cause of lonely elderly in nursing homes. She also hoped to persuade grandchildren to tap the wisdom and history their grandparents could provide. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that National Grandparents Day would be celebrated every year on the first Sunday after Labor Day.
FinDem's ongoing research project, the Great Grandparents Study, has now estimated from Australian 2001 Census data and current population estimates that there are 6.4 million grandchildren in Australia with 1.54 million grandmothers and 1.12 million grandfathers. The average age of grandchildren is 12.8 years and the average age of grandmothers is 63.4 years and grandfathers 65.5 years.
The next phase of FinDem's research in this area will be to run simmulations from other past and future years population projections to study the change in number and age profile of grandparents and the economic implications of these trends. We have added 2001 grandparent and grandchildren age profiles to Research Centre.
Posted Sunday, 11 September 2005
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