Table 2.

Types of Support Received by Generation Over 60 Years Old from Relatives (in percentages)

Relative	Types of support
	Money	Services	Gifts	Other	Percentage of elderly receiving support
Men
Spouse	19.04	12.13	6.27	12.28	49.72
Children	15.45	2.27	6.29	5.15	29.15
Parents	1.30	1.30	0.00	1.30	3.91
Sibling	1.15	0.00	1.15	0.00	2.29
Children-in-law	2.99	0.00	1.69	1.56	6.24
Stepchildren	0.50	0.00	1.00	0.00	1.50
Other relatives	2.68	2.90	0.00	1.60	7.19
Total	43.10	18.61	16.39	21.90	100.00
Women
Head of household	0.10	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.19
Spouse	37.34	3.07	7.87	9.80	58.09
Children	14.06	1.42	4.86	4.62	24.96
Father only	0.20	0.11	0.09	0.09	0.50
Siblings	1.36	0.22	0.64	0.65	2.86
Children-in-law	3.82	0.92	1.56	1.06	7.37
Grandchildren	0.57	0.00	0.22	0.40	1.20
Other relative	1.75	0.10	0.49	0.35	2.69
Non-relatives	0.85	0.57	0.52	0.21	2.15
Domestic employees	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	60.06	6.41	16.26	17.28	100.00

Source: Own estimations based on SABE, 2001.