. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2019 Apr;56(2):573–594. doi: 10.1007/s13524-018-0754-8

Table 1.

Characteristics of women in sample

	Wave 1	Wave 2	Wave 3
Age in Years (mean)	27.1	30.3	32.3
Number of Living Children (mean)	2.4	3.2	3.6
Want to Delay Childbearing (%)	25.4	23.5	19.7
Want to Stop Childbearing (%)	26.5	41.6	48.3
N	1,668	1,865	2,051

Note: Women interviewed in each survey wave with nonmissing data on fertility desires.