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  • Title: Preferred family size among Filipino adolescents.
    Journal: Options Policy Pract; 1978; 4(3):14-20. PubMed ID: 12261742.
    Abstract:
    In 1974 the Population Education Program of the Ministry of Education and Culture conducted a study of family size preferences of Filipino adolescents. A random selection of public and private school students was made from a stratified sample of rural and urban places in the 11 administrative regions of the Philippines. 3256 students between grade 5 and 4th year high school and 1145 out-of-school adolescents age 11-16 were included. The majority of respondents had thought about ideal number of children for an average Filipino couple and for themselves, and both in school and out-of-school respondents most commonly chose 2 to 4 as their ideal number. Respondents tended to choose a smaller ideal family size for their parents than their parents actually had. The mean family size preference for self given by those in school was 3.45, compared to 3.33 for those out of school. Type of school, urban or rural residence, and socioeconomic class by parents' occupation were not statistically significant. Male in-school respondents consistently gave higher family size preferences than females, and Muslims had higher preferences than followers of other religions. Mean family size preferences were inversely related to father's educational attainment, but the relationship to mother's educational attainment was uneven. Subjects' responses were consistent. The majority of respondents were able to verbalize their reasons for choosing a particular family size, and most reasons were economic. Further studies are recommended for a better understanding of the formation of family size ideals among young people.
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