教育發展與婦女理想子女數的關係

台灣近年來生育率下滑速度相當快速，隨著婦女教育程度與就學率的快速增加，讓婦女接觸的世界變廣，婦女對於家庭外的活動更感興趣，這是否影響到婦女勞動參與、收入、初婚年齡，進而影響到婦女的生育態度及其生育行為。本研究將以理想子女數來表示婦女的生育態度，探討教育發展對婦女理想子女數的影響。本研究以行政院主計處69、79、89年15－64歲的婦女為基礎，觀察三個時間點的教育程度、初婚年齡、勞動參與、收入、都市化程度對婦女理想子女數的影響。迴歸分析結果顯示，婦女教育程度對理想子女數的影響量是最大，其次是初婚年齡。

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理想子女數；教育發展

並列摘要

In recent years, there have been great changes in Taiwan's fertility rate. The world woman has been known is changing wider wildly through woman's educational development and demographic high reliability. Woman is interested in everything out of the household. Will it be reference on woman's labor market opportunity, income and first wedding, then will be reference on woman's fertility attitudes and fertility behavior? In the study the ideal number of children represents woman's fertility attitudes. The purpose of this study was to probe the influence of education development on ideal number of children. The sample aged 15-64 yrs. selected is held by the research Institute of Bureau in 1980, 1990 and 2000. In order to assess the influence educational, first wedding, labor market opportunity, income, urbanization on ideal number of children. The result showed the first influence on ideal number of children is education level, second is first wedding.