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  • Title: Family size preferences in Turkey.
    Author: Unalan T.
    Journal: Nufusbil Derg; 1988; 10():21-38. PubMed ID: 12342132.
    Abstract:
    Data from the 1983 Turkish Fertility Contraceptive Prevalence and Family Health Survey results were used to analyze the family size preferences of currently married Turkish women. The mean desired family size, which was 3.03 in 1978, was 2.7 in 1983. There were considerable differences in the mean number of children desired among regions and places of residence. The difference between the most developed region, the West, and the least developed region, the East, was 1 child. The mean number of desired children increased as the number of living children, marital duration, and age of the women increased and decreased as the level of education increased. More than half of the women who were at the end of their fertile period had more children than they desired. Among women who were fecund but wanted no more children, 74% of them were using a contraceptive method and 26% were not. Among women who wanted more children, about half of them were not using any method probably with the aim of birth spacing. Approximately 10% of women who had excess fertility and 15% of women who had reached their desired number of children indicated that their husbands wanted a future birth. Important variables for future examination are the characteristics and attitudes of the husband.
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