site.btaYoung Bulgarians Want to Have Two Children - Pollster

Sofia, May 29 (BTA) - The generation of Bulgarians aged between 14 and 29 want to have two children on average, show the results from a Gallup International survey conducted among 1,016 persons in the 14-29 age group between February and March 2018. The study was conducted as part of a project of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Central and Eastern Europe.

The findings are not significantly different from those made by a similar survey in 2014, which found that the average number of children young Bulgarians would like to have is 2.02, the pollsters recall.

Fifty-nine per cent of the respondents want to have two children, 12 per cent one child, 10 per cent three children, and 2 per cent four or more children. The remaining 17 per cent do not know. Practically almost no one states that they do not want children, the sociologists note.

One-fifth of teenagers and around one-tenth of respondents aged between 20 and 29 do not know yet how many children they would like to have.

Incomes, along with education, and the settlement of residence are listed as important factors for the number of children young Bulgarians would like to have. Those with more favourable life prospects seem to not place children as highly in their preferences, the pollsters say.


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