Dimension idéale de la famille, fécondité et politique démographique. Nouvelles données dans les pays de la Communauté économique européenne et interprétation
Girard Alain and Roussel Louis. ? Ideal Family Size, Fertility and Population Policy. New Data for the EEC Countries and their Interpretation. Mean ideal family size as obtained in surveys generally exceeds the mean number of children born per woman at current rates (the total fertility ratio). Many writers have concluded from these data that French people have fewer children than they would wish. Their generative intentions are frustrated by material and financial obstacles, which public action has not succeeded in removing. Some instances of this interpretation of the figures are provided in the paper, but its cogency is questioned. The phenomenon is found in all industrialized countries, and particularly in those of the EEC. Two averages which come from radically different distributions cannot be compared. The concept of an "ideal" family size expresses a norm which cannot take account of the diversity of individual circumstances which determine the value of a current index of fertility.
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1981
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Authors: | Roussel, Louis ; Girard, Alain |
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Population (french edition). - Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED). - Vol. 36.1981, 6, p. 1005-1034
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Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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