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- Title
GYERMEKTELENSÉG ÉS ISKOLAI VÉGZETTSÉG ÖSSZEFÜGGÉSEI MAGYARORSZÁGON.
- Authors
Laura, Szabó
- Abstract
The level of education of women are emphasized in general when researchers try to explain the ultimate childlessness at individual level. The increasing level of education seems to be related to the increasing share of childless women. Our analysis used as data source the individual level Hungarian population censuses from the years 1970, 1980, 1990, 2001, 2011 and the microcensus data from 2016, allowing us to select the population of the 41-51 years old childless women with four level of education: primary, vocational, secondary and university, college. We bring evidence on the changing share of childless women born between 1920 and 1975 in general and by level of education. Our data also shows the convergence in childlessness of women with different level of education. We constructed two hypothetical scenarios and found the next. If in all birth cohorts the educational composition of women has been the same as the educational composition of women born in 1945-1949, the proportion of childless women among those born before 1945 would be higher than the actual one by 44%, while there would be no difference among younger generations born after 1949. On the other hand, if the level of childlessness within educational groups in all birth cohorts has been the same as in the 1955-1959 birth cohort, the level of childlessness would have been lower than the actual one by 50% in older cohorts and by 60% in younger cohorts. That is, the change in the share of childless women within educational groups has a greater impact on the overall childlessness, than the change in the educational composition of women born in 1920-1975.
- Publication
Demográfia, 2019, Vol 62, Issue 2/3, p199
- ISSN
1787-940X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.21543/Dem.62.2-3.2