جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "عوامل سطح استانی" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

Iran has been among the countries with below replacement fertility levels since the 2000s. Fertility behaviors are determined by a broad variety of micro and macro factors. Thus, this study aims to examine the individual and provincial -level determinants of fertility in Iran using a multilevel approach. The 2016 micro-census data from Iran were analyzed for 7000 married women 15-49 years old using HLM software. Fertility behavior was measured as the number of children ever born (CEB). The results indicated that various individual-level variables, namely, education, employment, and rural-urban residence place were significantly associated with CEB. Provincial-level factors such as contraceptive use, internet coverage, and development level index were significantly correlated with fertility. The influence of individual-level factors (especially education) on fertility behavior appears stronger than that of provincial-level factors. We discuss the implications of our findings for the understanding of dynamics of fertility and new pronatalist policy in Iran.