People, Population Change and Policies: Lessons from the Population Policy Acceptance Study vol. 1: Family Change (European Studies of Population)

432 Pages·2008·3.1 MB·English

by  Charlotte Hohn

People, Population Change and Policies
European Studies of Population
Volume 16/1
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EditorialBoard:
CharlotteHöhn,BundesinstitutfürBevölkerungsforschung,(BiB),Wiesbaden,Germany
JaninaJó´zwiak,EuropeanAssociationforPopulationStudies(EAPS)
NicoKeilman,StatisticsNorway,Oslo,Norway
MauraMisiti,IstitutodiRecerchesullaPopolazioneelePoliticheSociali(IRPPS),Roma,Italy
Jean-MarcRohrbasser,InstitutNationald’EtudesDémographiques(INED),Paris,France
ZsoltSpéder,DemographicResearchInstitute(DRI),Budapest,Hungary
AndresVikat,PopulationActivitiesUnit,(ECE,UnitedNations),Geneva,Switzerland
FransWillekens,NetherlandsInterdisciplinaryDemographicInstitute(NIDI),TheHague,Netherlands
AdvisoryBoard:
InesAlberdi(UniversidadComplutense,Madrid,Spain),HerwigBirg(InstitutfürBevölkerungsforschung,
Bielefeld, Germany), Graziella Caselli (Università degli studi di Roma“La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy),
DavidColeman(DepartmentofAppliedSocialStudiesandSocialResearch,Oxford,UnitedKingdom),
JackHabib(Brookdate Institute, Jerusalem,Israel), Kalev Katus(EstonianInteruniversity Population
ResearchCentre,Talinn,Estonia),MáireNíBhrolcháin(DepartmentofSocialStatistics,Southampton,
UnitedKingdom),VitaPruzan(DanishNationalInstituteofSocialResearch,Copenhagen,Denmark),
Serge Scherbov (Vienna Institute ofDemography, Vienna, Austria), DavidSly (Florida State Univer-
sity,Tallahassee,USA),TapaniValkonen(UniversityofHelsinki,Finland),JamesVaupel(MaxPlanck
InstituteforDemographicResearch,Rostock,Germany).
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Charlotte Höhn Dragana Avramov
Irena E. Kotowska
Editors
People, Population Change
and Policies
Lessons from the Population Policy
Acceptance Study Vol. 1: Family Change
Editors
CharlotteHöhn
FederalInstituteforPopulationResearch
Wiesbaden
Germany
DraganaAvramov
PopulationandSocialPolicyConsultants(PSPC)
Brussels
Belgium
IrenaE.Kotowska
WarsawSchoolofEconomics
Warsaw
Poland
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Acknowledgment
The two volumes of the work “People, Population Change and Policies: Lessons
from PopulationPolicy AcceptanceStudy” are the finaloutcome of the DIALOG
project.ThisprojectwasfundedbyEuropeanCommissionforthreeyearsinthe5th
FrameworkProgramme.
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Contents
1 Introduction................................................... 1
CharlotteHöhn
PartI TheoreticalBackground,MethodsandOpportunities
forAnalysesoftheInternationalPopulationPolicyAcceptance
StudyDatabase(IPPAS)
2 FromPopulationPolicyAcceptanceSurveystotheInternational
Database ...................................................... 19
DraganaAvramovandRobertCliquet
3 SelectedStatisticalMethodstoAnalyseIPPAS..................... 47
MarcCallens
4 PathwaysofWelfareandPopulation-relatedPolicies ............... 59
BeatFux
PartII AttitudesTowards(TheChangeof)TheFamily
5 AttitudesTowardsFormsofPartnership.......................... 93
MariettaPongraczandZsoltSpéder
6 Family Transformations in the Post-Communist Countries:
AttitudesTowardChanges ......................................113
VladaStankunieneandAusraMaslauskaite
PartIII Valueofchildren
7 MotivationtohaveChildreninEurope ...........................141
TinekeFokkemaandIngridEsveldt
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8 IntergenerationalChangesintheValueSysteminEurope ..........157
IrenaKowalskaandWiktoriaWróblewska
9 AttitudesandIntentionsTowardChildlessnessinEurope...........177
TomáˇsSobotkaandMariaRitaTesta
PartIV FertilityIntentions
10 WillweWitnessanUpturninEuropeanFertility
intheNearFuture? ............................................215
ChristineVanPeerandLadislavRabuˇsic
11 FertilityPreferencesandExpectationsRegardingOldAge..........243
KalevKatus,AllanPuurandAstaPõldma
12 TheInfluenceofEducationandFamilyPoliciesonAgeatFirstBirth 259
OsmoKontula
PartV ReconciliationofWorkandFamily
13 PreferencesRegardingReconciliationofFamilyandProfessional
LifeVersusReality .............................................279
MajdaCˇerniˇcIsteniˇcandAndrejKveder
14 Reconciliation of Work and Family Within Different
InstitutionalSettings ...........................................299
IrenaE.KotowskaandAnnaMatysiak
15 Work-FamilyOrientationandFemaleLabourMarketParticipation .319
KalevKatus,AstaPõldmaandAllanPuur
PartVI FamilyRelatedPolicies
16 FamilyPolicies:FinancialorInstitutionalMeasures?...............347
AnneliMiettinen,IngridEsveldtandTinekeFokkema
17 Anticipated Impact of Family Policies on FertilityBehaviour
AmongtheChildlessandAmongOne-ChildParents ...............369
IngridEsveldt,TinekeFokkemaandAnneliMiettinen
18 PreferencesVersusActualFamilyPolicyMeasures.................391
NadaStropnik,JoˇzeSambtandJiˇrinaKocourková
References.........................................................411
Index .............................................................431
Contributors
DraganaAvramov
PopulationandSocialPolicyConsultants(PSPC),Brussels,Belgium
[email protected]
LadislavRabuˇsic
FacultyofSocialStudies,MasarykUniversityinBrno,CzechRepublic
[email protected]
MarcCallens
ResearchCentreoftheFlemishGovernment(SVR),Brussels,Belgium
[email protected]
RobertCliquet
PopulationandSocialPolicyConsultants(PSPC),Brussels,Belgium
[email protected]
IngridEsveldt
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague,
Netherlands
[email protected]
TinekeFokkema
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague,
Netherlands
[email protected]
BeatFux
InstituteofSociology,UniversityofZurich,Zurich,Switzerland
[email protected]
CharlotteHöhn
FederalInstituteforPopulationResearch,Wiesbaden,Germany
[email protected]
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x Contributors
MajdaCˇerniˇcIsteniˇc
Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts,
SociomedicalInstitute,Ljubljana,Slovenia
[email protected]
KalevKatus
EstonianInteruniversityPopulationResearchCentre,Tallinn,Estonia
[email protected]
JiˇrinaKocourková
Department of Demography and Geodemography, Faculty of Science, Charles
University,Prague,CzechRepublic
[email protected]
OsmoKontula
PopulationResearchInstitute,Helsinki,Finland
osmo.kontula@vaestoliito.fi
IrenaE.Kotowska
Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw,
Poland
[email protected]
IrenaKowalska
Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw,
Poland
[email protected]
AndrejKveder
UnitedNationsEconomicCommissionforEurope,PopulationActivityUnit,Geneva,
Switzerland
[email protected]
AusraMaslauskaite
DemographicResearchCentre,InstituteforSocialResearch,Vilnius,Lithuania
[email protected]
AnnaMatysiak
Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw,
Poland
[email protected]
AnneliMiettinen
Miettinen, Population Research Institute, Family Federation of Finland, Helsinki,
Finland
anneli.miettinen@vaestoliitto.fi