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Published: 30 January 2018
Fig. 4 Infant mortality by distance to ideal family size (panel a) and ideal composition of children (panel b). The (blue) circles represent male infant mortality and the (red) crosses female infant mortality. Whiskers are 95 % confidence intervals on the means. The solid curves (in blue and red
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1535–1557.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Julia A. Behrman Abstract Drawing on more than 30 years of nationally representative microdata from the General Social Survey, this article comprehensively updates recent trends in ideal family size in the United States. It first documents stability in ideal family sizes between the mid-1980s...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Ideal</span> <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> and Reproductive Orientations: An Exploration of Change Over Time in the United States
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for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Ideal</span> <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> and Reproductive Orientations: An Exploration of Change Over Time in the United States
Includes: Supplementary data
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Demography (1966) 3 (1): 154–173.
Published: 01 March 1966
... vida. Family Size Ideal Family Size Milbank Memorial Fund Detroit Metropolitan Area Reproductive Goal References 1 Freedman Ronald , Whelpton Pascal K. , & Campbell Arthur A. ( 1959 ). Family Planning, Sterility, and Population Growth . New York : McGraw-Hill...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Ideal</span> <span class="search-highlight">family</span> <span class="search-highlight">size</span> among white Americans: A quarter of a century’s evidence
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Demography (1970) 7 (1): 43–51.
Published: 01 February 1970
... of 1.56 and 5.96. Ideal and acceptable family sizes increase slightly in the higher grades. A sex difference in ideals appeared only at grade 12; girls wanted more children. Negroes wanted fewer children than did whites at grade 6, more at grade 12. Size of family of orientation was directly related...
View articletitled, The formation and stability of <span class="search-highlight">ideal</span> <span class="search-highlight">family</span> <span class="search-highlight">size</span> among young people
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Demography (1970) 7 (3): 329–339.
Published: 01 August 1970
...John B. Williamson Abstract This study is an assessment of the relevance of subjective efficacy and ideal family size as predictors of favorability toward birth control. The samples considered are male factory workers in five developing nations. The effects of ideal family size and subjective...
View articletitled, Subjective efficacy and <span class="search-highlight">ideal</span> <span class="search-highlight">family</span> <span class="search-highlight">size</span> as predictors of favorability toward birth control
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in Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations: An Exploration of Change Over Time in the United States
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 1 Predicted counts of ideal family size by survey year generated following a Poisson regression analysis of the association between the survey year and ideal family size (no additional covariates included). GSS-provided sampling weights are used.
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in Young Women’s Dynamic Family Size Preferences in the Context of Transitioning Fertility
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Published: 26 April 2013
Fig. 1 Ideal family size by five-year cohorts, Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2010
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Published: 16 October 2020
Fig. 2 Marginal effects of conflict on ideal family size, by parity (panel a) and total fertility rate of women’s country of residence (panel b)
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Published: 30 January 2018
Fig. 1 Number of children by distance to ideal family size (panel a) and composition (panel b). Dashed lines indicate cutoff value between wanted and unwanted children
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1715–1737.
Published: 26 April 2013
...Fig. 1 Ideal family size by five-year cohorts, Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2010 ...
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View articletitled, Young Women’s Dynamic <span class="search-highlight">Family</span> <span class="search-highlight">Size</span> Preferences in the Context of Transitioning Fertility
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2113–2141.
Published: 16 October 2020
...Fig. 2 Marginal effects of conflict on ideal family size, by parity (panel a) and total fertility rate of women’s country of residence (panel b) ...
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View articletitled, Exposure to Armed Conflict and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 637–657.
Published: 01 November 2003
.... By analyzing the data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), we present evidence from northern India to show that the preference for sons is reduced when the ideal family size becomes small, even though it does not completely disappear. This finding appears to contradict trends in the juvenile sex...
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Demography (1985) 22 (3): 445–454.
Published: 01 August 1985
...Eric Jensen Abstract An unresolved question in the analysis of survey data relating to fertility attitudes and beliefs is how non-numeric responses to questions on ideal family size should be treated. This paper demonstrates that simply dropping “up to God” responses will bias regression results...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 787–809.
Published: 08 May 2015
... women’s ideal family size and very high desired fertility across all three countries. Additional analyses of potential pathways through which schooling could have affected desired fertility suggest some pathways—such as increasing partner’s education—were common across contexts, whereas other pathways...
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in Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations: An Exploration of Change Over Time in the United States
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Published: 01 October 2024
Fig. 2 Predicted probabilities of different response categories of ideal family size by survey year generated following multinomial logistic regression analysis of the association between the survey year and different response categories of ideal family size (no additional covariates included
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Demography (1971) 8 (1): 49–69.
Published: 01 February 1971
... to smaller family size ideals and lower fertility. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1971 1971 Family Size Fertility Decline Industrial City Family Decision Industrial Community References Banks , J. A. ( 1954 ). Prosperity and Parenthood . London...
View articletitled, Industrialization, <span class="search-highlight">family</span> and fertility: A structural-psychological analysis of the Brazilian case
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Published: 30 January 2018
Fig. 2 Number (panel a) and percentage (panel b) of live-born children who are desired and undesired at birth, by sex and ideal family size
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Published: 30 January 2018
Fig. 6 Share of infant mortality rate attributable to undesiredness, by sex and ideal family size. Bars marked B represent shares of male infant mortality, and bars marked G represent shares of female infant mortality
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in Ideal Family Size and Reproductive Orientations: An Exploration of Change Over Time in the United States
> Demography
Published: 01 October 2024
homemaker family model; D = women are less suited for public office; E = premarital sex is wrong; and F = abortion should be banned. The average ideal family size (IFS) of each class (included in the LCA but on a different scale than the binary indicators) is indicated above each plot. No additional
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Demography (1975) 12 (1): 157–161.
Published: 01 February 1975
...David L. Kruegel 8 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1975 1975 Ideal Family Causal Order Population Problem Population Prob Ideal Family Size References Blake Judith ( 1974 ). Can We Believe Recent Data on Birth Expectations in the United States...
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