Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207048 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Vienna Institute of Demography Working Papers No. 05/2018
Publisher: 
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Vienna
Abstract: 
This article examines the characteristics of women and men who got a child despite declaring no such wish up to three years before the pregnancy. We compare these unintended or sooner-than-intended parents with those who got a child as intended and those who, in line with their intentions, did not increase their family size. Using the first and second wave of the Generations and Gender Survey for six low-fertility countries (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Italy and Poland) we conduct bivariate analysis and (multinomial) logit models. Our results show that not realising negative fertility intentions is linked more to a particular stage in one's life course and finding a new partner than to a disadvantaged socio-economic status. Thus, most of the unintended or sooner-than-intended births are probably neither unintended nor sooner-than-intended, but are a result of change in one's life circumstances between the time of measuring the fertility intentions and their realisation.
Subjects: 
Fertility intentions
realisation of fertility intentions
unintended births
sooner-than-intended births
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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