College students'fertility intentions under the"Three-child"policy
Objective To explore the fertility intentions of college students under the"Three-child"policy and its influencing factors,providing a reference for optimizing and improving China's fertility policy support.Methods Using the Wenjuanxing platform,a self-designed questionnaire was employed to conduct an anonymous online survey of 1 034 college students.The questionnaire in-cluded sections on demographic information,fertility intentions,and attitudes toward the policy.Descriptive statistical analysis was used for general demographic data,chi-square tests for categorical data comparison,t-tests for continuous data comparison,and lo-gistic regression analysis to evaluate the impact of demographic characteristics on fertility intentions.Results Among the surveyed college students,43.91％preferred a two-child family as their ideal family model,28.24％chose a one-child family,18.08％se-lected a childless family or"DINK"(dual income,no kids)family,6.87％opted for a three-child family,and 2.90％chose a family with four or more children.Logistic regression results indicated that fertility intentions were influenced by six factors:gender,aca-demic year,place of residence,type of family of origin,father's education level,and mother's education level(P＜0.05).Regard-ing gender,male students demonstrated significantly higher fertility intentions under the"three-child"policy compared to their female counterparts(OR=1.747).Concerning the academic year,sophomores and juniors exhibited notably lower fertility intentions rela-tive to freshmen(OR=0.659,OR=0.685,respectively).As for the place of residence,students from rural areas showed higher fertility intentions in comparison to their urban counterparts(OR=1.529).In terms of family of origin,students from families with three children displayed greater fertility intentions compared to those who had no siblings(OR=1.485).For paternal educa-tion level,students whose fathers attained a high school or vocational education level exhibited higher fertility intentions than those whose fathers had only a middle school or lower education level(OR=1.671,OR=1.568).Concerning maternal education level,students whose mothers had a vocational education background showed higher fertility intentions relative to those whose mothers had a middle school or lower education level(OR=1.482).Conclusion Most college students consider a two-child family to be the ideal model,with relatively low intentions of having three or more children.Therefore,efforts should focus on improving economic sup-port policies for childbirth,advancing childcare system development,ensuring womens career development,fostering a fertility-friendly social environment,and providing housing subsidies to effectively implement the"Three-child"policy.
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