Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey : Pitfalls and Challenges

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10680-020-09573-x</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assessing Short-Term Fertility Intentions and Their Realisation Using the Generations and Gender Survey : Pitfalls and Challenges
Original language description
The use of fertility intention questions to study individual childbearing behaviour has developed rapidly in recent decades. In Europe, the Generations and Gender Surveys are the main sources of cross-national data on fertility intentions and their realisation. This study investigates how an inconsistent implementation of a question about wanting a child now affects the cross-country comparability of intentions to have a child within the next three years and their realisation. We conduct our analysis separately for women and men at prime and late reproductive ages in Austria, France, Italy and Poland. The results show that the overall share of respondents intending to have a child at some point in their life is similar in all four analysed countries. However, once the time horizon and the degree of certainty of fertility intentions are included, substantial cross-country differences appear, particularly in terms of proceptive behaviour and, consequently, the realisation of fertility intentions. We conclude that the inconsistent questionnaire adaptation makes it very difficult to assess the role of country context in the realisation of childbearing intentions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50400 - Sociology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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