Table 2.
Weighted percentage of respondents having a first child within marriage, cohabitation, and while being single per country, cohort, and gender
| Country | Cohort | Women | Men | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Married | Cohabiting | Single | Married | Cohabiting | Single | ||
| North American countries | |||||||
| CAN | 1927–1955 | 90.9 | 2.1 | 7.0 | 89.5 | 2.3 | 8.3 |
| 1955–1975 | 73.9 | 14.0 | 12.1 | 75.0 | 15.2 | 9.8 | |
| 1975–1991 | 43.4 | 35.0 | 21.7 | 42.5 | 36.3 | 21.1 | |
| Total | 77.4 | 11.5 | 11.1 | 78.5 | 11.5 | 10.1 | |
| US | 1961–1975 | 67.3 | 13.6 | 19.1 | 66.1 | 16.2 | 17.7 |
| 1975–1993 | 38.5 | 30.8 | 30.6 | 39.3 | 31.4 | 29.3 | |
| Total | 56.1 | 20.3 | 23.6 | 57.1 | 21.3 | 21.6 | |
| West European countries | |||||||
| AUT | 1963–1975 | 60.2 | 28.2 | 11.6 | 58.3 | 30.5 | 11.3 |
| 1975–1990 | 44.5 | 42.8 | 12.7 | 46.9 | 40.4 | 12.7 | |
| Total | 55.6 | 32.5 | 11.9 | 55.7 | 32.7 | 11.6 | |
| BEL | 1928–1955 | 85.5 | 3.7 | 10.9 | 89.5 | 4.1 | 6.4 |
| 1955–1975 | 76.9 | 14.1 | 9.0 | 80.3 | 14.3 | 5.4 | |
| 1975–1990 | 51.5 | 41.6 | 6.9 | 48.7 | 44.1 | 7.3 | |
| Total | 76.6 | 14.0 | 9.4 | 81.3 | 12.8 | 6.0 | |
| FRA | 1926–1955 | 82.1 | 4.6 | 13.3 | 88.0 | 5.4 | 6.6 |
| 1955–1975 | 61.8 | 30.8 | 7.4 | 58.9 | 35.9 | 5.2 | |
| 1975–1987 | 38.2 | 49.9 | 11.9 | 32.7 | 58.0 | 9.3 | |
| Total | 70.0 | 19.5 | 10.6 | 72.5 | 21.4 | 6.2 | |
| NET | 1945–1955 | 94.7 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 96.8 | 2.2 | 1.0 |
| 1955–1975 | 80.6 | 16.8 | 2.6 | 80.3 | 18.1 | 1.6 | |
| 1975–1990 | 60.0 | 35.3 | 4.7 | 52.0 | 44.3 | 3.7 | |
| Total | 81.6 | 15.3 | 3.1 | 82.8 | 15.6 | 1.6 | |
| NOR | 1927–1955 | 84.3 | 4.0 | 11.7 | 83.7 | 6.8 | 9.6 |
| 1955–1975 | 47.9 | 40.8 | 11.3 | 45.8 | 46.7 | 7.5 | |
| 1975–1988 | 24.0 | 64.5 | 11.5 | 24.0 | 67.7 | 8.4 | |
| Total | 61.7 | 26.8 | 11.5 | 61.3 | 30.2 | 8.5 | |
| East European countries | |||||||
| BUL | 1919–1955 | 86.3 | 4.4 | 9.3 | 89.4 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| 1955–1975 | 87.3 | 7.7 | 5.0 | 84.7 | 11.6 | 3.7 | |
| 1975–1987 | 63.6 | 29.1 | 7.3 | 54.4 | 42.8 | 2.8 | |
| Total | 84.6 | 8.1 | 7.3 | 85.3 | 10.3 | 4.5 | |
| CZE | 1926–1955 | 84.4 | 2.8 | 12.8 | 88.1 | 2.4 | 9.5 |
| 1955–1975 | 79.1 | 7.5 | 13.4 | 82.2 | 8.2 | 9.6 | |
| 1975–1987 | 64.5 | 17.0 | 18.6 | 59.6 | 28.1 | 12.3 | |
| Total | 79.9 | 6.5 | 13.7 | 83.4 | 6.9 | 9.7 | |
| EST | 1924–1955 | 83.5 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 86.4 | 9.0 | 4.7 |
| 1955–1975 | 67.8 | 21.1 | 11.2 | 67.9 | 28.0 | 4.1 | |
| 1975–1983 | 35.4 | 52.1 | 12.5 | 31.3 | 63.6 | 5.2 | |
| Total | 73.3 | 17.0 | 9.7 | 73.9 | 21.7 | 4.5 | |
| GEO | 1926–1955 | 82.7 | 11.8 | 5.5 | 83.7 | 12.0 | 4.3 |
| 1955–1975 | 78.7 | 17.2 | 4.1 | 71.3 | 24.7 | 4.0 | |
| 1975–1988 | 57.8 | 37.7 | 4.5 | 53.8 | 40.9 | 5.3 | |
| Total | 77.0 | 18.3 | 4.7 | 74.3 | 21.5 | 4.2 | |
| HUN | 1926–1955 | 93.7 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 92.0 | 2.1 | 5.9 |
| 1955–1975 | 84.9 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 82.9 | 10.9 | 6.3 | |
| 1975–1983 | 66.5 | 24.0 | 9.6 | 63.5 | 30.8 | 5.7 | |
| Total | 88.3 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 86.7 | 7.2 | 6.1 | |
| LIT | 1926–1955 | 86.8 | 2.5 | 10.7 | 89.5 | 2.0 | 8.5 |
| 1955–1975 | 85.1 | 4.6 | 10.3 | 88.8 | 4.5 | 6.7 | |
| 1975–1988 | 74.0 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 79.5 | 13.1 | 7.3 | |
| Total | 84.2 | 4.9 | 10.9 | 88.0 | 4.6 | 7.4 | |
| POL | 1927–1955 | 89.3 | 2.4 | 8.4 | 92.2 | 1.8 | 6.0 |
| 1955–1975 | 87.5 | 4.9 | 7.6 | 88.9 | 5.2 | 5.9 | |
| 1975–1993 | 74.5 | 14.0 | 11.5 | 76.9 | 15.7 | 7.4 | |
| Total | 84.9 | 6.3 | 8.8 | 87.4 | 6.4 | 6.3 | |
| ROM | 1925–1955 | 86.9 | 3.7 | 9.4 | 90.9 | 3.3 | 5.8 |
| 1955–1975 | 87.4 | 7.8 | 4.8 | 89.0 | 7.5 | 3.6 | |
| 1975–1987 | 80.0 | 14.9 | 5.1 | 79.2 | 19.3 | 1.5 | |
| Total | 86.2 | 7.0 | 6.8 | 89.0 | 6.7 | 4.4 | |
| RUS | 1923–1955 | 81.3 | 8.1 | 10.6 | 85.5 | 7.4 | 7.1 |
| 1955–1975 | 82.6 | 8.8 | 8.6 | 84.8 | 9.9 | 5.4 | |
| 1975–1987 | 69.5 | 17.1 | 13.5 | 77.7 | 17.3 | 5.1 | |
| Total | 80.5 | 9.5 | 10.1 | 84.4 | 9.5 | 6.1 | |