산아제한이전의 출산양상이 가족복지에 미치는 영향

Impacts of Fertility before the Birth Control on Family Welfare

This study has been performed to analyze fertility characteristics such as family extension period, total fertility within a family, and male birth rates before birth control period initiated in Korea. In this study, 183 subjects aged late 50s to 70s were interviewed for their childbearing history under legal marriage. In this study, average term from the first to the last birth is 11.88 years, and total number of live births is 4.51. The average rate of male births among live births within a family is 0.532, which is close to data of Korean statistical office in 1995. But among those who bore three or fewer children, the rate ranged more than 0.6. The male rate proved to be influenced by total number of siblings and head's educational level. The male birth rate of those who were highly educated but bore few children is significantly lower than those who were less educated but bore many children.