| The research of the factors affecting the number of children has always been an important area of Sociology of Population. The actual number of children is the joint action of natural environment, economy, society, population and policy interventions and so on, many factors affect together. As these factors are intertwined, the function direction is by no means always consistent, therefore, if someone wants to explain the influence function of these complete factors without defining, it may not only fail to achieve the goal, what's worse, it is likely to run counter to the facts. As such, using a random sample of 800 households in Uygur family status data, this study attempts to concentrate on the influences of Uygur women's socioeconomic characteristics (the level of education, employment status, the level of income and so on) on their number of children (one measurement criteria of fertility) . That is to say, under the same macro-socioeconomic environment, the same religion, customs as well as the same fertility policy, the research focuses on the Uygur women's socioeconomic reasons that makes the difference of the number of children.As to the Data analysis technique, the author uses Poisson regressionanalysis. Because the dependent variable as well as count variable---thenumber of family children is in skew distribution and dispersion, which enables us to be allowed to use Poisson regression model to analysis the influence of education level, the employment status, the income level on the number of the family children.The results show that Uygur women's education level, employment status has significant statistical significance on the number of children, while women's income level's influence is not obvious. After the variable--the birth control policy, is introduced, the results remain basically unchanged. We also find that the birth control policy has notable statistical significance on the number of family children.
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