Sub-replacement fertility intentions in Austria

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Combining the data of the 1986–2001 Microcensus surveys, I reconstruct trends in fertility intentions across time and over the life course of Austrian women born since the 1950s. Young adults in Austria expressed fertility intentions that were below the replacement-level threshold as early as in 1986 and women born since the mid-1950s consistently desired fewer than two children on average throughout their reproductive lives. A two-child family norm, however, still clearly dominates the fertility intentions of different age, cohort and education groups. Uncertainty about childbearing intentions is rather common, especially among younger and childless respondents. Different assumptions about reproductive preferences of undecided respondents affect estimates of the mean intended family size. Although Austrians were among the first in Europe to express low fertility intentions, their position is no longer unique. By the early 2000s, young women in a number of other European countries also expressed sub-replacement fertility intentions.

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• Weitere Titel: Intentions de fécondité inférieures au seuil de remplacement en Autriche
• Umfang: Seite(n): 387-412
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, 25(4)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie ; Bevölkerung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Sobotka, Tomáš
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Deutschland
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-009-9183-0
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-203980
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln