Fertility norms in France

This page gives information of type fertility norms about the country France.
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Data is taken from the tables at the end of this PDF. These are based on the 2011 Eurobarometer survey.

Ideal family size (social ideal family size)

The data here is obtained from Table A.2.5 of the paper.

Age group	No children	1 child	2 children	3 or more children	No ideal	Don't know	Mean	Number of cases
15-24 female	0	0	0.58	0.26	0.13	0.03	2.34	43
25-39 female	0	0.04	0.64	0.28	0.03	0	2.33	137
40-54 female	0	0.07	0.65	0.24	0.05	0	2.28	147
55+ female	0.02	0.03	0.56	0.35	0.03	0.01	2.34	281
Total female	0	0.05	0.59	0.24	0.1	0.01	2.33	608
15-24 male	0	0	0.56	0.38	0.06	0	2.5	58
25-39 male	0	0.04	0.69	0.21	0.06	0.01	2.25	84
40-54 male	0.02	0.04	0.61	0.27	0.06	0	2.22	121
55+ male	0.01	0.02	0.57	0.35	0.04	0.01	2.35	197
Total male	0.03	0.03	0.7	0.18	0.05	0.01	2.32	460

Desired fertility (personal ideal family size)

The data here is obtained from Table A.2.6 of the paper.

Age group	No children	1 child	2 children	3 or more children	No ideal	Don't know	Mean	Number of cases
15-24 female	0	0.04	0.44	0.47	0	0.04	2.5	43
25-39 female	0.01	0.12	0.49	0.38	0	0.01	2.49	137
40-54 female	0.02	0.11	0.45	0.4	0.02	0	2.51	147
55+ female	0.04	0.1	0.46	0.38	0.02	0	2.44	281
Total female	0.02	0.1	0.46	0.4	0.01	0.01	2.47	608
15-24 male	0.04	0.03	0.56	0.33	0.02	0.02	2.29	58
25-39 male	0.02	0.07	0.6	0.27	0.01	0.03	2.23	84
40-54 male	0.06	0.09	0.49	0.32	0.04	0.01	2.2	121
55+ male	0.04	0.02	0.47	0.4	0.03	0.03	2.45	197
Total male	0.04	0.05	0.52	0.33	0.03	0.02	2.3	460