Analyzing the Sustainability of High Fertility through Family Formation and Fertility Trends of Unmarried Generation Z Individuals
Project no. 32285 · Status: Kapanmış (Yayın bekleniyor) · 2024
Summary
<p>The project aims to analyze the family formation and fertility tendencies of Generation Z individuals based on their socio-cultural values in order to ensure the sustainability of fertility at the replacement level of the population. Today, fertility rates are showing a decreasing trend almost all over the world. In 2022, the total fertility rate in Turkey, which was 1.62, which is below the population replacement level of 2.1. Within this framework, the research aims to investigate the sustainability of fertility by focusing on the relationship between the cultural values of Generation Z in the five provinces with the highest total fertility rates and their family formation and fertility intentions. In this way, it is aimed to reveal which socio-cultural values are associated with high fertility and to develop suggestions for maintaining a strong population structure. The research universe consists of never-married individuals from Generation Z born between 1995 and 2005 in the five provinces with the highest total fertility rates in Turkey in 2022 [(Şanlıurfa (3.59), Şırnak (2.94), Mardin (2.62), Muş (2.53) and Ağrı (2.51)]. A total of 499 people with these qualifications constituted the research sample. The research is based on the quantitative research method and the research technique to be used within the framework of this method was designed as an online survey. The main findings of the study include that there is a tendency towards post-materialist values in high fertility provinces, yet three out of every four young people intend to get married and have children, and those who grew up in large families are largely intent on continuing this behavior by embracing materialist values.</p>