The Influence of Female’s Education Level on Fertility Intention

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

education level of female; fertility intentions; woman of childbearing age

Abstract

Fertility is one of the key factors for countries use to measure economic progress. With the opening up and implementation of the two-child policy in China, population would increase largely according to the plan. However, people found that the fertility rate is still declining every year, and so is the desire to have children. In order to find why this situation happened in China, this article investigates the relationship between the education level of females and the fertility intention by analyzing the data from questionnaire, comparing the results between questionnaire and researches, and SWOT method to understand whether the education level would change or affect the willingness of females such as the higher education level of females, the lower desire to have children. After completing the analyze, this research gets the conclusions that the higher education level of females would decrease their willingness to have children because many different factors, such as economic level, the damage of body after birthing, and the focusing on job rather than fertility.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yue Lu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - The Influence of Female’s Education Level on Fertility Intention
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 871
EP  - 877
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.157
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.157
ID  - Lu2022
ER  -