Abstract
Based on China fertility survey 2017, this report presents the national fertility level, age-specific fertility rate and parity distribution. The survey results show that during 2006–2016 the mean ages at first marriage and first birth increased by 2.7 and 2.6 years respectively. From 2006 to 2011, the total fertility rate was around 1.60–1.70, and experienced notable fluctuations during 2012–2016. Compared the age-specific fertility in 2006 with in 2011, the curve in 2016 shifted significantly to the right side. Affected by the relaxation of the fertility policy, the proportion of second births among the total births had increased year by year since 2012.
Highlights
During 1982–2006, former National Family Planning Commission of China and former National Population and Family Planning Commission of China conducted six national-wide comprehensive surveys on fertility, the six surveys are: National 1‰ Population Survey on Fertility in 1982, National Survey on Fertility and Contraception in 1988, the First Survey for National Family Planning Information System in 1992, National Survey on Population and Reproductive Health in 1997, National Survey on Family Planning and Reproductive Health in 2001, National Survey on Population and Family Planning in 2006
The mean age of women at first birth increased from 24.3 years old in 2006 to 26.9 years old in 2016, while that of women at second birth increased from 29.2 years old in 2014 to 30.2 years old in 2016, which is caused by having second birth at a later age among women at childbearing age after the fertility policy relaxation
This report presents a preliminary result on the current fertility status of China based on the data collected from China fertility survey 2017
Summary
During 1982–2006, former National Family Planning Commission of China and former National Population and Family Planning Commission of China conducted six national-wide comprehensive surveys on fertility, the six surveys are: National 1‰ Population Survey on Fertility in 1982, National Survey on Fertility and Contraception in 1988, the First Survey for National Family Planning Information System in 1992, National Survey on Population and Reproductive Health in 1997, National Survey on Family Planning and Reproductive Health in 2001, National Survey on Population and Family Planning in 2006. The data collected from the surveys provided important scientific basis for understanding the national. In 2017, former National Health and Family Planning Commission of China organized a national representative fertility survey (Zhuang et al 2018). The target population of China fertility survey 2017 (hereafter CFS 2017) was women aged 15–60 with Chinese citizenship living in China’s mainland at 00:00 July 1, 2017. The methods of stratified three-stage and PPS (probability proportional to size) sampling were adopted in the survey. The outcome of the post-survey quality check shows that the birth data collected from this survey is reliable (Zhuang et al 2018). This paper presents preliminary results of China’s fertility status based on the weighted survey data
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