Table 1 Proportion of Women of Prime Childbearing Age with the Intention for a Third Child
From: Third-child fertility intention and its socioeconomic factors among women aged 20–34 years in China
Provinces/provincial level administrative units | Intended number of children ≥ 3 (%) | Ideal number of children ≥ 3 (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | ||
Western region | Xinjiang | 20.87 | 21.36 |
Tibet | 15.63 | 17.53 | |
Guangxi | 12.22 | 13.74 | |
Ningxia | 8.18 | 9.05 | |
Qinghai | 7.74 | 10.97 | |
Yunnan | 6.11 | 5.92 | |
Guizhou | 6.11 | 6.57 | |
Gansu | 4.45 | 3.35 | |
Sichuan | 3.95 | 3.49 | |
Shaanxi | 2.50 | 2.21 | |
Inner Mongolia | 1.95 | 1.45 | |
Chongqing | 1.62 | 1.35 | |
Subtotal | 6.76 | 6.58 | |
Central region | Jiangxi | 7.22 | 8.53 |
Henan | 6.92 | 5.77 | |
Hunan | 6.77 | 6.48 | |
Anhui | 3.08 | 2.28 | |
Hubei | 2.08 | 1.58 | |
Shanxi | 2.05 | 1.77 | |
Subtotal | 4.25 | 4.64 | |
Eastern region | Hainan | 13.24 | 17.38 |
Guangdong | 8.92 | 10.79 | |
Fujian | 4.88 | 4.88 | |
Shandong | 4.54 | 3.06 | |
Hebei | 3.54 | 4.59 | |
Jiangsu | 1.66 | 1.80 | |
Zhejiang | 1.56 | 1.53 | |
Beijing | 1.53 | 2.78 | |
Tianjin | 1.23 | 1.71 | |
Shanghai | 0.24 | 1.67 | |
Subtotal | 5.00 | 4.30 | |
Northeastern region | Jilin | 1.07 | 0.73 |
Heilongjiang | 0.94 | 0.75 | |
Liaoning | 0.62 | 0.79 | |
Subtotal | 0.76 | 0.86 | |
Total | 5.01 | 4.76 | |