Disentangling the Swedish fertility decline of the 2010s

Abstract

BACKGROUND The downward fertility trend in Western countries during the 2010s is puzzling, not least in the Nordic region. OBJECTIVE In order to better understand its driving forces, we examine whether the decline is driven by differential behavior or compositional changes across sociodemographic population subgroups, for the empirical case of Sweden. METHODS Event-history techniques are applied to register data of the Swedish-born population to provide an in-depth analysis of the sociodemographic profile of the fertility decline.