Statistics Sweden will publish the "Having children or not" report today? The results are based on a questionnaire survey aimed at 7 000 women and men in childbearing years.

On average Swedish women have two children and the two child norm appears to be a lasting one. Roughly half of the women and men without children who were asked how many children they would like to have replied that they would like to have two. Among those with one child, most believe that they will have another, while the majority of those with two do not believethat they will have more.

Historically there have been few children born in Sweden under difficult economic times. Despite the question about the desire to have children being answered during a recession, economic reasons are not the most common reasons given for why people wait to start families. The reason why people waitis mainly that they want to do something else first or that they did not feel sufficiently mature.  This applies to both younger and older people without children. Among singles aged 35 however the main reason is that they have not found the right partner.

從歷史看來，在經濟困頓時期，瑞典曾經有過嬰兒出生率低的狀況。然而，儘管目前經濟不景氣，受訪者被問到是否要有小孩時，經濟因素卻不是他們延遲組織家庭最 普遍的理由。最主要的原因是他們想要先做點其他事情，或者覺得自己還不夠成熟。這也是沒有小孩的年輕或年長受訪者的理由。不過，對35歲單身受訪者來說，主要的理由是他們沒有找到合適的伴侶。

Many women and men over 35 and without children state that they tried to get pregnant but did not succeed. For those who had children who are  aged 30 or more, more than one third that needed to wait more than a year before they themselves or their partners became pregnant.

許多35歲以上沒有小孩的青年說，他們試著要懷孕，但失敗。而年紀30以上有小孩者，超過1/3的受訪者，需要等一年以上，讓自己或伴侶懷孕。