Sunday, March 29, 2020

Coronavirus and multi-generational households

Italy and Spain are experiencing high numbers of deaths particularly because they have high levels of multi-generational households. It is more common for the elderly live with the young.

In NZ there is limited publicly available data about multi-generational families.

The graph below has been constructed by people who probably paid for it:

Based on that trend New Zealand now has around a quarter million individuals living in three or more generation extended family households.

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