Fertility norms in Sweden

This page gives information of type fertility norms about the country Sweden.
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Data is taken from the tables at the end of this PDF. These are based on the 2011 Eurobarometer survey. For full tabulation of relevant data from the paper, see fertility norms in Europe.

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	0.05	0.05	0.45	0.41	0	0.05	2.6	22
25-39 female	0	0.06	0.58	0.27	0.09	0	2.27	68
40-54 female	0	0.02	0.47	0.37	0.12	0.02	2.46	121
55+ female	0	0	0.57	0.36	0.06	0.01	2.41	290
Total female	0	0.11	0.58	0.22	0.06	0.03	2.41	501
15-24 male	0	0.04	0.52	0.39	0.04	0	2.45	23
25-39 male	0	0.02	0.68	0.22	0.04	0.03	2.26	95
40-54 male	0	0.02	0.6	0.28	0.11	0	2.36	104
55+ male	0	0.02	0.53	0.36	0.08	0.01	2.4	296
Total male	0.02	0.15	0.54	0.19	0.08	0.02	2.37	518

Desired fertility (personal ideal family size)

The data here is based on 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	0.05	0	0.55	0.36	0.05	0	2.69	22
25-39 female	0	0.09	0.55	0.36	0	0	2.38	68
40-54 female	0.06	0.08	0.48	0.34	0.02	0.02	2.34	121
55+ female	0.03	0.06	0.49	0.39	0.02	0.01	2.39	290
Total female	0.03	0.06	0.51	0.37	0.02	0.01	2.41	501
15-24 male	0.04	0.09	0.39	0.43	0	0.04	2.45	23
25-39 male	0.06	0.03	0.61	0.27	0.01	0.02	2.26	95
40-54 male	0.06	0.06	0.57	0.29	0.02	0.01	2.28	104
55+ male	0.02	0.04	0.53	0.37	0.01	0.03	2.37	296
Total male	0.04	0.05	0.54	0.33	0.01	0.02	2.33	518