Meta-Analysis of Social Factors Affecting Fertility in Iran

Over the past few decades the fertility rate in Iran has experienced significant changes and families faced with numerous challenges in childbearing. Efforts to increase the population, were not successfully accompanied by different groups of people. The continuation of this trend will be followed by consequences such as reaching a population below the succession level and population ageing in the coming decades. This study aims to identify the social and cultural factors affecting family’s fertility motivation in Iranian studies using the meta-analysis method. In order to perform meta-analysis, 60 relevant published research studies in the field of fertility in the past decade (from 2001 until now) were selected. After reviewing 60 studies, 36 articles were excluded due to lack of basic criteria for the meta-analysis and 24 studies were selected. Based on the findings of the meta-analysis, demographic variables such as age, education, especially female education, family size, families’ socio-economic status, strategies, family
using Multivariate Analysis Test. Separate effect of virtual social networks on risk taking was significant, and on the entrepreneurship capability, dimensions independence, internal control, achievement motivation and creativity wasn’t significant. Also gender effect on the risk taking and internal control was significant and on the other items wasn’t. Finally, the effect of virtual networking and gender on the internal control was significant and on the other items wasn’t significant. Though Policy-makers and practitioners in virtual domains should pay more attention to education, expert and continual monitoring of the networks, and planning for the future.