Képzési háttér és gyermekvállalási tervek
Educational Background and Childbearing Plans

Summary/Abstract: The interpretive framework of the study is the interaction between demographic trends and the education system. Within this, it addresses a possible demographic consequence of parental education, i.e., its impact on the planning of having a second child. The analysis is based on the data of Cohort ’18 Growing Up In Hungary, collected among pregnant women by the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute in 2018 as a part of a Hungarian Birth Cohort Study. According to the results, the plans of the expecting mothers to have a second child significantly affected by the educational attainment. As regards directions, there is a linear positive relationship between the level of education and the odds of planning a second child. Higher educational background of both parents shows the strongest effect on the plans. Elementary vocational training works against planning chances, but upper vocational background increases the desire to have a second child. Educational attainment of the partner also has a significant effect on maternal childbearing plans. From the point of view of educational policy, the positive effect of higher education degree on having children can be highlighted. Potentially unfavorable demographic consequences of the direction towards vocational training can be also highlighted by the results.

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