Urbanisation and Changes in Fertility Pattern in Poland and in the Selected Countries of Western and Southern Europen

• Autorzy: Sławomir Kurek , Milena Lange
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Since the beginning of the 1990s profound changes have occurred in reproductive behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe. They involve a sudden fall in the fertility rate, accompanied by an increase in the age of mothers giving birth to their first child, and a growth in the percentage of extramarital births. A similar course of changes in reproductive behaviour was observed almost a decade earlier in the countries of Southern Europe (Greece, Spain and Italy), and at the beginning of the 1960s in the countries of Western Europe (e.g. France). The aim of the study is to show the spatial changes in the fertility pattern in Poland compared to the selected European countries - Italy, Spain and France. Since new fertility patterns take hold most quickly among the inhabitants of large cities, as a result of the weaker effects of tradition and earlier formation of social norms owing to suburbanisation processes, the analysis of changes in reproductive behaviours will be conducted in the context of changes in urbanisation level. The time frame of the study encompasses an extended duration, especially taking into account the period of 1970?2010. For the comparison of large cities, data from 2010 or the nearest available were examined. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Urbanisation; Fertility; Reproduction population model

PL

Urbanizacja; Płodność; Modele reprodukcji ludności

• Czasopismo: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Rocznik: 2012
• Numer: No. 17
• Strony: 77--85

Twórcy

autor

Sławomir Kurek

• Pedagogical University of Cracow

autor

Milena Lange

• University of Lodz, Poland

Bibliografia

• Coale, A. 1973: The demographic transition reconsidered. In: International Population Conference, Vol. 1, Liège, Belgium: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, pp. 53-72.
• Černič Istenič, M. and Kveder, A. 2008: Urban-rural life setting as the explanatory factor of differences in fertility behaviour in Slovenia. In: Informatica, No. 32, pp. 111-122.
• De Beer, J. and Deerenberg, I. 2007: An explanatory model for projecting regional fertility differences in the Netherlands. In: Population Research and Policy Review, 26, pp. 511-528. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-007-9040-y
• Duchêne, J., Gabadinho, A., Willems, M. and Wanner, P. 2004: Study of low fertility in the regions of the European Union: places, periods and causes. In: Eurostat: Population and social conditions, 3/2004/F/No.4, p. 85.
• EUROSTAT, European Commission, epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/
• Główny Urząd Statystyczny (GUS), Central Statistical Office (CSO), Warsaw, www.stat.gov.pl.
• Hank, K. 2001: Regional fertility differences in Western Germany: an overview of the literature and recent descriptive findings. In: International Journal of Population Geography, 7, pp. 243-257.
• Instituto Nacional de Estadística - INE, The National Statistics Institute, http://www.ine.es/
• Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques - INSEE, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, www.insee.fr/fr/
• Istituto Nazionale di Statistica - ISTAT, Italian National Institute of Statistics, www.istat.it/en/
• Kotowska, I. editor 1999: Przemiany demograficzne w Polsce w latach 90. w świetle koncepcji drugiego przejścia demograficznego (Demographic changes in Poland in the light of the concept of the second demographic transition - in Polish), Monografie i opracowania 461, Warszawa: Szkoła Główna Handlowa, p. 279.
• Kotowska, I., Jóźwiak, J., Matysiak, A. and Baranowska, A. 2008: Poland: fertility decline as a response to profound societal and labour market changes? In: Demographic Research, Vol. 19, Article 22, pp. 795-854. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.22
• Kulu, H. and Boyle, P.J. 2008: High fertility in city suburbs: compositional or contextual effects? In: European Journal of Population, No 25 (2), pp. 157-174. DOI: 10.1007/s10680-008-9163-9.
• Kulu, H., Boyle, P.J. and Andersson, G. 2009: High suburban fertility: Evidence from four Northern European countries, In: Demographic Research, Vol. 21, Article 31, pp. 915-944 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.31.
• Lesthaeghe, R. 2009: Long term spatial continuities in demographic innovations - Insights from the Belgian example, 1946-2000. Unpublished Draft (May 1, 2009), accessed on: sdt.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/presentations/Belgium_May2009.pdf, DoA: 15.10.2011.
• Lesthaeghe, R. 2010: The unfolding story of the second demographic transition. In: Population and Development Review, 36 (2), pp. 211-225.
• Lesthaeghe, R. and Neels, K. 2002: From the first to the second demographic transition - an interpretation of the spatial continuity of demographic innovation in France, Belgium and Switzerland. In: European Journal of Population, Vol. 18 (4), pp. 225-260.
• Lesthaeghe, R. and Surkyn, J. 2004: When history moves on: the foundations and diffusion of a second demographic transition. Paper presented at the seminar on Ideational perspectives on international family change, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, accessed on: www.vub.ac.be/SOCO/ron/WhenHistoryMovesOn_finalpdf.pdf, DoA: 20.02.2012.
• Mynarska, M. 2010: Deadline for parenthood: fertility postponement and age norms in Poland. In: European Journal of Population (Revue européenne de démographie), 26 (3), pp. 351-373.
• Nowicka, E. 1998: Dyfuzja kulturowa. In: Bokszański, Z. editor, Encyklopedia socjologii, T. 1, Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, pp. 152-156.
• Rogers, E.M. 2005: Diffusion of innovations, New York: The Free Press, p. 551.
• Sobotka, T. 2008: The diverse faces of the Second Demographic Transition in Europe. In: Demographic Research, 19/8, pp. 171-224. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.8
• Sobotka, T., Šťastná, A., Zeman, K., Hamplová, D. and Kantorová, V. 2008: Czech Republic: a rapid transformation of fertility and family behaviour after the collapse of state socialism. In: Demographic Research, 19/14, pp. 403-454. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2008.19.14
• Szymańska, D. 2007: Urbanizacja na świecie (Urbanization in the world - in Polish), Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, p. 392.
• United Nations, World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projection Section, accessed on: esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm
• Van de Kaa, D.J. 2003: The idea of a second demographic transition in industrialized countries. In: Japanese Journal of Population, 1 (1), pp. 42-75, accessed on: ww.ipss.go.jp/webj-ad/webjournal.files/population/2003_4/kaa.pdf, DoA: 20.02.2012.
• Van de Kaa, D.J. 2004: Is the Second Demographic Transition a useful research concept: questions and answers. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 2, pp. 3-10, accessed on: hw.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa500d_0x0006201f, DoA: 20.02.2012.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/v10089-012-0008-2