Fertility preferences: what measuring second choices teaches us
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Fertility preferences: what measuring second choices teaches us
This article aims to strengthen the research methodology for studies of fertility preferences. Knowledge of personal fertility ideals is important both for demographers and policy makers, but the measurement techniques currently employed are not very refined. We suggest that the information provided by asking people about their personal ideal number of offspring can be improved in quality when ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1728-4414,1728-5305
DOI: 10.1553/populationyearbook2011s131