Number of children among generations: The case of Kosova

Abstract

Fertility is one of the most sensitive demographic components: it presents the number of children in the population and it is one of the main components of the rate of natural increase. The level of fertility changes continually under the influence of broad number of factors, specially the socio-economic factors. These changes are very slow and might appear just after a certain period of time, only between generations. The Topic of this paper is talking about the changes in fertility among Albanian population in Kosova. Furthermore, it explains the attitudes toward number of children among Albanian women with different demographic and socio-economic background. The proposed theoretical framework is based on the behavior outcome in individual level theory. Herewith, we analyze the relation between number of children as behavior outcome and determinants that have influenced them. The data used for this paper derived from an empirical research conducted in the University Hospital Centre in Prishtina, Kosova. The results showed that number of the children delivered from women today has changed comparing with number of children delivered by their mothers. The results conclude that the number of children vary from demographic and socio-economic background of women