Table 2.
Trajectories of fertility desires across survey waves
| N | % | Living children: W1a |
Living children: W3a |
Births W1-W3b |
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| Fixed target trajectories | ||||||
| More-More-More | 458 | 36.0 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 1.2 | |
| More-More-Stop | 167 | 13.1 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 1.6 | |
| More-Stop-Stop | 184 | 14.4 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 1.5 | |
| Stop-Stop-Stop | 234 | 18.4 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 1.2 | |
| Dynamic preferences trajectories | ||||||
| More-Stop-More | 105 | 8.2 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 1.4 | |
| Stop-More-More | 42 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 0.7 | |
| Stop-Stop-More | 27 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 1.4 | |
| Stop-More-Stop | 57 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 1.2 | |
a
For pregnant women, includes current pregnancy.
b
For women pregnant at wave 3, includes current pregnancy.
N=1274 women interviewed in all three survey years with non-missing data for desires. “More” indicates wants more children; “stop” indicates wants to stop childbearing.