Ethnic models of fertility behaviour in Sri Lanka.
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Determinants of child-bearing intentions of low-income women: attitudes versus life circumstances.
Surveys of low-income women in Los Angeles County in 1985 and 1986 were used to examine the relative impact of child-bearing motivations versus life circumstances on the intention to have a(nother) child. Future child-bearing intentions are strongly related to current parity level regardless of marital status, race/ethnicity or economic status. Psychological motivating factors predict child-bearing intentions of nulliparous women, but not those of parous women. Multivariate analyses showed that motivation for parenthood and life circumstances combined predicted women's child-bearing intentions 88.6% of the time for nulliparous women, but 73.7% for parous women. These findings suggest that, in a low-income population, the onset of parenthood reduces the relationship between specific motivations for child-bearing and actual child-bearing intentions, and diminishes the ability to predict child-bearing intentions based on both attitudinal and social/structural factors.
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Childbearing motivation and its measurement.
This paper conceptualises the motive force behind human childbearing as originating in two broad traits which have biological bases, are shaped by experiences during early life and are expressed through their effect on desires and intentions. An instrument for measuring childbearing motivation, the Childbearing Questionnaire (CBQ), is presented. Using a sample of 401 married couples two main scales, nine subscales, and several independent items are described. Evidence for the reliability and validity of this instrument is presented. The versatility of the CBQ as a research instrument and the usefulness of the conceptualisation from which it is derived as a way of integrating social, behavioural, and biological science approaches to childbearing motivation are discussed.
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Anticipated child loss to migration and sustained high fertility in an east Caribbean population.
Development today is commonly accompanied by rapid urbanization and, where possible, high rates of migration to industrialized countries. At the same time, the expected demographic transition has often not materialized despite decreases in death rates. Child-to-woman ratios in St. Vincent and the Grenadines are related to the educational attainment of women in a census district, the percentage of men engaged in agriculture, whether the district has direct access to the outside world through a port or airport, and, when the other variables are controlled, the stability of a district's population. Those districts with the greatest stability of population had the lowest child-to-woman ratios, suggesting that the anticipated loss of children to migration may be an important factor in maintaining high reproductive rates.
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Determinants of family size preferences in Pakistan.
"The paper attempts to investigate and identify some of the most important predictors of family size-preferences in Pakistan. Based on cross-sectional data relating to 9,416 currently married women, the results of this study suggest that having one or more sons in the family is the principal predictor of the desired family size. Yet another important predictor is the education of the wife which plays a critical role in the family size determination. The study shows that the preferences for family size do not vary greatly between urban and rural areas."
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[Determining fertility behavior using path analysis].
In order to examine factors influencing the perception of ideal family size in Poland, "the present paper discusses path models, which explain a central reproductive behaviour category i.e. the actual number of children....[The author finds that] the image of the ideal family size directly influences the existing number of children. Path coefficients show that the increase of the ideal number of children by one standard deviation is associated with the increase of actual family size by approximately one third standard deviation of this explanatory variable." Other variables considered include parental influence, rural or urban residence, educational status, age at marriage, religion, and quality of life. (SUMMARY IN ENG)
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Reproductive preferences in Matlab, Bangladesh: levels, motivation and differentials.
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Factors affecting fertility preference in Bangladesh: a multivariate analysis.
"This study attempts to identify the correlated factors and their relative importance in explaining the total variation at individual level of family size desires [among] Bangladeshi women. Multiple linear regression is used to assess the direction and magnitude of association and the relative contribution to the variation by a set of variables. The analysis discloses the fact that number of living children seems to be the principal determinant among the variables considered in this study...."
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The desire for additional children among Pakistani women: the determinants.
"This study examines the determinants of the desire for additional children for currently married women in Pakistan, drawing data from the Population, Labour Force and Migration (PLM) Survey of 1979-80. The variations in the patterns of desired fertility and their relationship to...factors of economic and social change--such as education, husband's occupation, household income, child education, and work--are also analyzed. The analysis is conducted using logit regression models." Consideration is given to differences between rural and urban women.
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[Fertility goals among students at the University of Sherbrooke].
This paper describes intentions in the matters of fertility expressed by 900 first-year students surveyed at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. The study seeks to ascertain links between certain attitudes, perceptions, or personal situations and the desired number of children. The desired number of children is shown to be strongly influenced by attitudes regarding marriage and by the importance placed on family life. Other variables which also have a significant impact on projected lifetime fertility, albeit to a lesser degree, include: the perception of the role of housewives, the importance granted to the stability of family income, and the number of siblings among members of the surveyed group. However, one surprising result is that the average desired number of children is 2.45. Given the high level of education of the sample, this appears to be quite a high figure.
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