Parents’ Preferences for Sex of Children in Sweden: Attitudes and Outcomes

Table 2 Attitudes of Swedish two-child parent’s regarding the birth of a third child during the 3 years following the survey, 2012.

	Two sons	Two daughters	Mixed	p value of
	(A)	(B)	(C)	A ≠ B
Will… become worse?
(1) The possibility to do what you want	81.8	85.9	82.9	0.40
(2) Your Employment Opportunities	64.3	70.0	59.4	0.35
(3) Your Financial Situation	76.6	75.1	64.5	0.78
(4) Your Sexual Life	57.9	61.5	46.2	0.58
(5) Closeness with partner	23.6	29.9	26.8	0.27
(6) Partner’s employment opportunities	48.2	48.7	48.7	0.94
(7) Certainty in your life	14.8	20.8	19.1	0.22
Others think you should have another child?
(8) Most friends	11.2	3.3	9.3	0.02
(9) My parents	12.2	7.3	9.3	0.22
(10) Most relatives	8.1	2.9	8.9	0.08
[N]	136	108	268

Data from the GGS follow-up questionnaire. Estimates based on the weighted sample