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[LINES OF REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR]
V N Arkhangelskiy1,2,3, E S Zayko4
1Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management of Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, 115088, Russia.
Abstract:
The article analyzes the lines of reproductive behavior of the population, which are one of the important indicators of actions to implement reproductive attitudes. The analysis of the lines of reproductive behavior was carried out on the basis of the results of two studies: «Selective observation of reproductive plans of the population» conducted by Rosstat in 2012 and the first wave of the All-Russian study «Demographic well-being of Russia» conducted by IDR FCTAS RAS in 2019-2020. If the 2012 study showed that almost 2/3 of one-child women did not have contraception and did not have abortions before the birth of their first child, then according to the results of the 2019-2020 study. Equally distributed were those who had and those who had not been protected from pregnancy before the first birth. Depending on the lines of reproductive behavior, on average, the values of the time interval between the registration of marriage and the first birth differ, and the time intervals between the first births and the second are noticeably different. The dependence of the lines of reproductive behavior on the importance of the birth and upbringing of children is manifested not so much with the lines of reproductive behavior in relation to children who have already been born, but with their behavior aimed at childbirth or refusal to give birth.
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