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Trends of nonmarital fertility in the Czech Republic after 1989

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2015

Abstract

Since the beginning of 90's of the 20th century there is a relatively large changes in the reproductive behavior of population of the Czech Republic, among other things, the proportion of children born out of marriage significantly increasing. Paper describes the development of the intensity of fertility unmarried women in comparison with married women in the years 1989-2014 in detail.

Attention is attend to 3 main influences which react on the proportion of children born out of marriage, obviously most to intensity of nonmarital and marital fertility (by age and by order of births). Analysis shows that although there is the convergence of the intensity of fertility of married and unmarried women from the beginning of the 21st century, the procreation behavior of these women is still significantly different (average age of mothers at birth of (the first) child, structure of births by order).