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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F21%3A00121439" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/21:00121439 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50400 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

European Journal of Population

ISSN

0168-6577

e-ISSN

1572-9885

Svazek periodika

37

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

405-416

Kód UT WoS článku

000601628000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85098004747