Survey on the Fertility Intentions of 1047 College Students

Abstract

This study conducted a questionnaire survey about the fertility intentions of college students in Nanjing from June to December 2015. According to the collection of 1047 questionnaires, the fertility intentions and the relative influencing factors were explored by descriptive analysis. The results indicated that there might be a baby boom in the coming 7-10 years under the universal two-child policy. From the beginning of 1970s, China implemented the one-child policy for slowing the population growth rate. More than 40 years passed since then, the trend of excessive population growth has been eased. According to the sixth census report, the total fertility rate of China has been reduced to 1.18[1]. However the demographic Structure problem has been appearing gradually while the fertility rate is sharply dropped. It brings the poser of the unbalanced gender population ratio, the aging of population,[2] etc. For replying the situation, the government adapted the policy to two-child fertility policy for couples where either the husband or the wife is from a single-child family in the end of year 2014 and more over the universal two-child policy in the end of 2015. Nevertheless, according to data released by the national health and family planning commission, there were less than 1 million pairs apply for rebirth which was far below expected 2 million predicted[3-4]. In order to understand the possible trend of the population composition in Jiangsu province precisely, we conducted the survey on the fertility intentions of college students in Nanjing.