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Non-marital fertility in Czechia and selected developed countries
Solařová, Kristýna ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor) ; Malinová, Albína (referee)
Non-maritalfertility in Czechia and selecteddeveloped countries Abstract The aim of this diploma thesis is to interpret the changes and trends in the reproduction behaviour in Czechia, Italy and Japan between the years 1990 and 2019, focusing on non-marital fertility. The thesis summarizes previously published literature on the subject of reproduction behaviour in developed countries. Individual trends of non-marital fertility in Czechia are studied using several demographic analysis tools. The primary focus is directed towards the structure of live births by mother's age, legal marital status and educational attainment level, as well as child's birth order. Focusing on the population of children born out of the wedlock, the method of binary logistic regression shows that there is a link between the odds of giving birth to child out of the wedlock, and the age and educational attainment level of mother. For the purposes of this thesis, developed countries are represented by Italy and Japan. Apart from data analysis,the focus is directed towards the social and cultural dissimilarities in reproductive behaviour of these countries' populations. The final part of the thesis compares the results of the analysis of all selected countries and shows that the countries vary in social perception of non-marital...
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