Fertility desire among Kermanshah: Determinants and limitations

Due to the importance of Iran's demographic changes in the past decades, the purpose of this study is to identify the socio-economic factors related to the desire to have children. The current research is a descriptive-analytical research of secondary analysis type and survey method and is applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of these data is related to the attitude plan of young people on the verge of marriage towards having children, which was conducted by the Institute of Statistics. For this purpose, 374 people have been selected using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. They data was analyzed via SPSS 22 software. Data was then analyzed using Linear Regression, Chi-squared test, One-Way Anova. The results showed that about 2.7 percent of people were childless and 33.1 percent of people with one child did not want to have another child. There is a significant difference in the desire to have children in the variables of social support, sex, age, gender preference, and job status, but there is no significant relationship between the desire to have children and social pressure, worry about having children, socio-economic base, place of residence, education, home status and the duration of internet use. Among the variables that have a direct effect on the desire to have children, gender preference and job status have the greatest negative impact, and social support is the only variable that has a positive effect on the desire to have children. In total, the research variables have been able to explain 0.56 percent of the changes in the desire to have children. In order to create the desire to have children and have children, one should pay attention to the role of factors such as social support and women's professional and family life and plan and make policies to strengthen them.