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  • Title: [Netherlands Fertility Survey 1982, expected ultimate number of children and social variables].
    Author: Van Hoorn WD.
    Journal: Maandstat Bevolking; 1985 Jan; 33(1):63-72. PubMed ID: 12313455.
    Abstract:
    This article comprises the results of a multivariate analysis of the data of the 1982 Netherlands Fertility Survey. The main objective of this survey was to broaden knowledge with respect to family formation. The population represented in the survey consists of women resident in the Netherlands and born between 1945-64. The subject of the analysis is the effect of certain non-demographic variables on the dependent demographic variable 'expected ultimate number of children'; the independent variables are mainly sociological and micro-economic by nature and the applied techniques are analysis of variance and multiple classification analysis. The most important results of the study are: the variation in the expected ultimate number of children explained by social variables is 15.3%; church attendance and political preference turn out to be the most significant social variables -- the more frequently women go to church, the more children they expect to have, and women with politically confessional tendencies expect to have more children than women brought up in small families; the present municipality of residence and the one they grew up in have a small but significant effect, and the expected number of children decreases with a "higher" degree of urbanization; for women, their (expected) age at completion of full-time education is more important than the level of that education, and for their (male) partners the opposite applies; the woman's net income has a substantial negative effect on her fertility; that of the (male) partner has only a slight positive effect; and women with (or seeking) a job outside the home expect to have less children than other women, and, in particular, more of them expect to remain childless.
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