Journal of Population Sciences
Table 1 Percentage of women by level of education and birth cohort, median age at the first childbirth and median duration between the first and the second childbirth by country
From: The nexus between education and fertility in six European countries
Bulgaria | Czech Rep. | France | Germany | Italy | Poland | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Education | ||||||
Low | 23.8 | 13.0 | 26.4 | 9.0 | 49.4 | 23.0 |
Medium | 48.1 | 71.9 | 40.3 | 61.6 | 33.5 | 65.7 |
High | 28.1 | 15.1 | 33.4 | 29.4 | 17.1 | 11.4 |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
Cohorts | ||||||
1940–1949 | 16.8 | 25.7 | 21.4 | 19.2 | 21.1 | 27.5 |
1950–1959 | 16.6 | 25.6 | 26.5 | 28.2 | 24.7 | 34.5 |
1960–1969 | 33.7 | 22.5 | 27.7 | 35.3 | 28.8 | 18.5 |
1970–1979 | 32.9 | 26.3 | 24.4 | 17.3 | 25.5 | 19.5 |
100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |
Age at first childbirth (median) | 22.2 | 23.0 | 26.6 | 26.8 | 27.8 | 23.2 |
Duration between the second and the first child (median) | 5.8 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 7.4 | 4.3 |
Number of cases | 3670 | 1219 | 2748 | 1345 | 11,580 | 4347 |