This studies was carried out to find the effects of some general factors on fertili-ty of 1, 644 "eligible"women residing in Gong-ju Gun, Chung Nam Province during April to August 1974.
The factors observed were the age of the "eligible"women, the continuance duration .of marriage, the educational standard, the living standard, and the outlook on children.
The results obtained from this study were as follows:
1. The mean age of marriage interviewed was found to be 22 years old. And the mean age of the first delivery was 23 showing 3 years older than that reported in a survey on the Status of the Maternal and Child Health in Rural Area in 1971.
2. The continuance duration of marriage of the respondents was 11 years.
3. In comparison with parity and delivery conditions of the respondents, normal .and the rest, 9.8% (1, 085 times of delivery) were abnormal.
4. The frequency of pregnancy by age group was the highest frequency with "one time" in 56.9% of 20-24 age group, "2 times" in 27.1% of 25-29 age group, "4 times" in 30.2 % of 30-34 age group and 41.0 % of 35-39 age group, and with "3 times" in 48.8% of "over 40" age group.
5. The artificial abortion rate by age was the highest with It-2 times in 71.1 % of "below 19" age group.
About 88% (87.8%) in 40-44 age group reported that they had not experienced artificial abortion.
6. The artificial abortion rate by the educational standard ranked the highest with_ 26.4% in the highschool graduation group and the lowest with 15.1 % in illiteral women group.
7. The "ideal" number of children by the age group was 1-2 highest 60.1% with in 25-29 age group and 3-4 the majority (50.4%) of 30-34 age group.
And 30.3% in 40-44 age group suggested "over 5" the "ideal" number of children. 8. The "ideal" number of children was shown big variation depending on the educational standards of the respondents.
42 (42. 1 %) of the respondents of college education suggested that 2 was the ideal number of children, but only 3.8% in the illiteral respondents did so.
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