< Back to the list of Population and Societies
@@src2@@

Fertility intentions and actual fertility : a complex relationship

Population and Societies

n° 415, September 2005

Download

People are regularly asked in sample surveys whether they wish to have children in the future. Can we rely on their answers to predict birth rates in the years to come? Why, in some cases, do their wishes not come true? Because they misjudged the direction their life would take? Because unforeseen problems, such as the death of a partner, divorce or unemployment, obliged them to postpone or even abandon their fertility projects? Laurent Toulemon and Maria Rita Testa present the results of the latest French survey on this topic.

Receive the e-alert

Same author

Is France still a demographic outlier in Europe?

Anne Solaz, Laurent Toulemon, Gilles Pison

Continued population ageing in France over the next half century

Laurent Toulemon, Élisabeth Algava, Nathalie Blanpain, et al.

Beneficial effect of adjusted sentences on recidivism in France: investigating the hidden role of the judge

Aline Désesquelles, Annie Kensey, Laurent Toulemon

The number of deaths in France will increase over the coming years

Gilles Pison, Laurent Toulemon

Demografía

Henri Leridon, Laurent Toulemon

A Steady Number of Induced Abortions,but Fewer Women Concerned

Magali Mazuy, Laurent Toulemon, Elodie Baril

Etude de l’histoire familiale. Premiers résultats de l’enquête en ménages.

Laurent Toulemon, Magali Mazuy

Exploratory analysis of demographic data using graphical methods.

Laurent Toulemon, Máire Ní Bhrolchain

Démographie

Laurent Toulemon, Henri Leridon

Les naissances sont retardées

Laurent Toulemon, Magali Mazuy

Abortion Trends in France, 1990-2005

France Prioux, Laurent Toulemon, Clémentine Rossier

La contraception en France : pilule et stérilet

Laurent Toulemon, Henri Leridon

La cohabitation adulte

Laurent Toulemon, Henri Leridon, Catherine De Guibert-Lantoine, et al.

La diffusion des préservatifs : contraception et prévention

Laurent Toulemon, Henri Leridon

How many children and how many siblings in France in the last century ?

Laurent Toulemon

Fertility among immigrant women : new data, a new approach

Laurent Toulemon

The French population projected to level off at 70 million

Laurent Toulemon, Isabelle Robert-Bobée

Comment prendre en compte l’âge à l’arrivée et la durée de séjour en France dans la mesure de la fécondité des immigrants ?

Laurent Toulemon, Magali Mazuy

Enquêtes sur la fécondité et la famille dans les pays de l’Europe (régions ECE des Nations Unies).

Laurent Toulemon, Catherine De Guibert-Lantoine

Régression logistique et régression sur les risques.

Laurent Toulemon

On the same topic

Histoire du Japon - L’économie et la population

réédition préfacée par Isabelle Konuma, postface d'Eva Lelièvre

Sexual and reproductive rights 30 years after the Cairo Conference on Population and Development

Valentine Becquet, Mireille Le Guen, Céline Miani, et al.

Politique d’immigration, statut légal et fécondité des migrantes : le cas de Mayotte

Cris Beauchemin, Haddad Marine

United Nations comparative fertility survey programs: balancing national challenges and international objectives

Marie Digoix

Stillbirths in France: Over half of women go on to have another child

Alberto Taviani, John Tomkinson, Didier Breton

Is France still a demographic outlier in Europe?

Anne Solaz, Laurent Toulemon, Gilles Pison

Mapping the massive global fertility decline over the last 20 years

Christian Dessouroux, Christian Vandermotten

A girl or a boy? 9 in 10 parents know their child’s sex before it is born

Olivia Samuel, Carole Brugeilles, Christine Hamelin, et al.