Research project Fertility intentions, fertility considerations and Swedish fertility decline

Since 2010, fertility rates in Sweden have been declining. This development is rather surprising since Swedish family policies are internationally acclaimed for facilitating childbearing and childrearing. The researchers in this project seek to identify the factors that drive these developments.

Equally surprising is the social inequality in ultimate childlessness has been emerging over the past decades. Applying mainly qualitative approaches, the researchers in this project seek to identify the factors that underlie these developments.

The qualitative analyses are based on interviews with women and men of childbearing ages in 2012 and another interview round during the course of this project in 2022 with other respondents but similar characteristics. The main focus is on potential changes in the life circumstances and life-course perception of women and men that may explain the fertility decline over the recent period.

The research pays particular attention to social change that may have occurred during the past decade. Gerda Neyer and Livia Oláh contribute with expertise in qualitative fertility and gender research. 

This research project has no members.

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