Childbearing intentions in a low fertility context: the case of Romania

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 4 Effects of factors from the theory of planned behaviour, objective measures of control and background demographic variables for childless individuals and one-child parents

	Childless				One-child parents
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 4
Factors for the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Positive attitudes: benefits	1.60***	1.64***	1.61***	1.61***	2.40***	2.31***	2.27***	2.33***
Negative attitudes: costs	0.69***	0.69***	0.62***	0.61***	0.50***	0.49***	0.51***	0.48***
Perceived behavioural control	1.22*	1.10	1.01	0.99	1.14	1.13	1.21	1.17
Subjective norms	3.22***	2.81***	2.48***	2.47***	3.03***	3.11***	2.81***	2.81***
Actual behavioural control
Dwelling size		0.79**	0.89	0.87		0.92	0.92	0.95
Employment status (ref. Not employed)
Employed		3.28***	2.69***	2.68***		0.73	1.07	1.06
Health status (ref. bad health)
Good health		0.93	0.99	0.99		2.18*	1.57	1.80
Income		1.00	0.99	0.99		0.99	0.99	0.99
Demographic background factors
Gender (ref. male)
Female			1.66*	1.63*			0.69	0.69
Partnership status (ref. No partner)
LAT-Living apart together			1.63*	1.61*			0.35	0.29
Married			3.63***	3.73***			0.85	0.72
Cohabiting			4.10**	4.25**			1.22	1.40
Education (ref. tertiary)
Secondary or less			1.45	1.45			0.94	0.86
Residential area (ref. rural)
Urban			1.21	1.26			0.79	0.87
Age class (ref. 36–45)
18–29			1.68*	1.64			7.34***	7.57***
30–35			2.86**	2.75**			3.73***	3.75***
Development regions
Regions (ref. Bucharest-Ilfov)
Centre				1.23				1.53
North-West				1.07				2.15
West				0.76				0.72
South-West Oltenia				1.21				1.75
South-Muntenia				1.29				0.89
South-East				0.82				1.57
North-East				1.05				2.54*
N	1023	921	921	921	1039	948	948	948
-2LogLikelihood	− 509.9413	− 435.7271	− 403.0342	−401.1143	− 430.1782	− 383.6826	− 347.008	− 338.4125
AIC	1029.9	889.45	841.88	850.23	870.36	785.37	728.02	724.83