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Table 5 Actual and expected number of children according to wife’s work

From: Marital fertility and the changing status of women in Europe

 

Actual

Expected

W

WNW

NW

W

WNW

NW

Belgium, 19661

1.47

2.02

2.35

1.95

2.56

2.92

Czechoslovakia, 19701

1.79

2.79

2.28

3.01

Denmark, 19701

1.88

2.22

2.47

2.64

England and Wales, 19671

1.44

2.03

2.37

1.86

2.33

2.65

Finland, 19711

1.86

2.20

2.47

2.43

2.61

3.08

France, 19721

1.60

2.43

2.39

2.11

2.71

2.78

Greece (Athens), 19672

1.47

1.73

   

Hungary, 19661

1.59

1.95

2.00

2.38

Italy (3 big cities), 19723

1.90

2.47

2.50

2.84

Poland, 19721

2.13

2.18

2.59

2.58

2.88

Yugoslavia, 19701

1.76

2.35

2.23

2.73

  1. W working; WNW worked, not working now; NW not working
  2. 1Standardized by marriage duration. Source: UN (1976a, 1976b)
  3. 2Source: Safilios-Rothschild (1969)
  4. 3Source: Bielli et al. (1975)
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