FSD3396 Family Barometer 2015

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Question text

People have different wishes and expectations regarding the size of their family. What is your ideal number of children?

Frequencies

Category labels Value n
I don't want any children 1 549
One child 2 315
Two children 3 1187
Three children 4 584
Four children 5 101
Five children 6 20
Six children or more 7 17
Can't say 8 407
Displayed frequencies are not weighted

Summary statistics

Number of valid cases 3180
Maximum 8
Minimum 1
Mean 3.48
Standard deviation 2.052

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