Stefanov Rumen S, Dimitrov Ivo D
Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Medical University, Plovdiv, 15A Vassil Aprilov St., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Folia Med (Plovdiv). 2005;47(3-4):70-7.
An essential component of the family planning of a newly married couple is determining not only the number of children but also the spacing of births.
To study the preferences of newly married couples of Bulgarian ancestry from Plovdiv for between-birth intervals and factors that have effect on them.
The present transversal study was designed to investigate family planning in young families of Bulgarian origin from the town of Plovdiv at the time of submission of documents for state registration of marriage. The primary sociological information was gathered by a direct individual inquiry of 384 families. The data were compared with data from a similar study performed in 1995.
Only one third of the women are willing to have a child immediately after marriage. Men prefer this to happen 1.61 +/- 0.07 year after the marriage while women favour longer protogenetic interval--1.84 +/- 0.06. The opinion of the spouses inquired about the age of women at last birth shows that there is statistically significant increase in this variable from 34.89 +/- 0.29 years in 1995 to 36.33 +/- 0.32 years in 2000. No statistically significant difference was found between the protogenetic intervals of 2000 and 1995.
The increased age at marriage, the postponement of childbirth and increase in the anticipated age of last birth supports the thesis that the Bulgarian family type has undergone changes towards the family type characteristic for the countries in Western Europe.
新婚夫妇计划生育的一个重要组成部分不仅是确定子女数量，还包括生育间隔。
研究来自普罗夫迪夫的保加利亚裔新婚夫妇对生育间隔的偏好以及影响生育间隔的因素。
本横断面研究旨在调查在提交国家婚姻登记文件时来自普罗夫迪夫镇的保加利亚裔年轻家庭的计划生育情况。通过对384个家庭进行直接的个人询问收集主要的社会学信息。将这些数据与1995年进行的一项类似研究的数据进行比较。
只有三分之一的女性愿意在婚后立即生育。男性希望在婚后1.61±0.07年生育，而女性则倾向于更长的生育间隔——1.84±0.06年。询问的配偶对最后生育时女性年龄的看法表明，该变量从1995年的34.89±0.29岁有统计学意义地增加到2000年的36.33±0.32岁。2000年和1995年的生育间隔之间未发现统计学上的显著差异。
结婚年龄的增加、生育推迟以及最后生育预期年龄的增加支持了保加利亚家庭类型已朝着西欧国家典型的家庭类型转变这一论点。
