Analysis On The Differences Between Fertility Desire And Fertility Behavior

There are lots of researches on fertility desire, but exist some research limitations, such as single research method, macro perspective, and one-sided aspects. In this paper, with the help of the data in the program of"Integrated Management of High Sex Ratio in Hubei Province", I explore the difference between fertility desire and fertility behavior, from two dimensions of birth number and birth gender. Then explain the impact factors of this difference. From this analysis, we can accurately grasp the current situation of fertility desire and fertility behavior, and then seek effective measures to solve the problem.The results of investigate shows that they want to have 2.11 children on average, and actual have 1.74 on average. The will birth sex ratio is 116.8, while the actual is 162.4. From the above data, we can get an assessment that fertility behavior is different from fertility desire. Thus two hypotheses are made.In order to prove these two hypotheses, I do t-test using several relevant variables. The results shows that individuals aged from 35 to 45's actual fertility level is below the will. More than 40% of the individuals do not complete their expected number of children. Only 10% fulfill or exceed it. The actual birth sex ratio is higher than the will, which is specifically showed that boy has the priority to born. When considering reducing the number of births, people usually tend to decrease the number of girl. In the case of only one birth and two births, the actual birth sex ratio is higher than the will, which is also higher than normal. Take the different type between desire and behavior as the dependent variable, I do a regression analysis to find the impact factors, which tells us age, residence, economic level and gender preference will affect the difference. Fertility desire's characteristics, social factors and technical factors will also produce a certain impact.