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A desire for children and starting a family amongst women and men with university degrees

A desire for children and starting a family amongst women and men with a university degree

Project profile

Inhaltsübersicht


 

Project team

Project management
Heidrun Bode
TNS Emnid, Bielefeld

Collaborators
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Helfferich
Heike Klindworth

 

Client

Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
Ostmerheimer Str. 220
51109 Köln
Germany
Tel.: 0221 8992-0
Fax: 0221 8992-300
www.bzga.de

 

Research institution

TNS Emnid Medien- und Sozialforschung GmbH
Stieghorster Str. 90
33605 Bielefeld
Germany
Tel.: 0521 9257-0
Fax: 0521 9257-333
www.tns-emnid.com

 

Survey time period

15 July – 28 July 2004

 

Target group

Women and men with a university degree, who are of the age where they are in the end phase of family planning. Both the men and the women in the sample were taken from a ten-year group, but the women’s group was five years younger than the men’s group: the women were aged between 35 and 44 (inclusive) and the men between 40 and 49 (inclusive).

 

Samples

Women n = 500
Men n = 500

 

Methodological approach/research design

Telephone interviews with women and men in the defined target groups.

Multi-step selection process:
  • Increment value method to select households from current telephone directories
  • Randomization of the end digit to also include households that are not listed in the directories
  • Selection based on the defined age

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  • Adult contraceptive behaviour: results of the representative survey 2003 In 2003 women and men were asked about their contraceptive behaviour and knowledge in a representative survey.