Classifying the elderly households into "one-person households", "nuclear-family households", "other relative households" and "non-relative households", the proportion of the number of other relative households, most of those which are three-generation households, among the elderly households showed 42.3% for the nation in 1995. Between 47 prefectures, Yamagata presented the largest (65.1%), while Kagoshima showed the proportion in the number of the one-person households, which showed 17.2% for the nation in 1995, depicts similar pattern as in that of the nuclear-family households. That is, Kagoshima recorded the largest (31.1%) while Yamagata presented the smallest (8.8%). Following after Kagoshima, the metropolitan prefectures of Osaka and Tokyo as well as the remote rural prefectures located in southwestern part of Japan such as Kochi, Miyazaki, Yamaguchi, Ehime and Nagasaki, etc. including Kagoshima, indicated larger proportion of more than 20%. On the other hand, those prefectures situating in the northeastern part including Yamagata and in the middle part (Tokai region) of Honshu island recorded smaler proortion (Table 7).
Table 7. Household Composition by Family Status, 1995
