Fécondité des femmes immigrantes et descendantes d’immigrantes selon le statut conjugal au Québec
In recent decades, many social changes occurred in Quebec have resulted in a loss of interest in marriage and the emergence of common law as a socially accepted status. With new attitudes related to personal and professional success, fertility has declined. In our study, we want to observe not only the fertility differentials by region of origin, which have already been the subject of previous research, but also those covered by the marital status of women (married or common law). The objective of our research is to determine if the fertility of immigrant women is higher than that of native women and if differences in fertility according to marital status categories (married or in common law) are the same for all groups of immigrant and native women. Results from the 2006 Canadian census have revealed that fertility is higher for most immigrant women. But, distinguishing between married and common law we see that women with higher fertility than the native-born represent a smaller proportion when we consider all immigrants. Although there are differences between the marital status, the trend shows that women have higher fertility within marriage compared to native-born are also in this situation when in common law. Finally, the majority of married women hold a higher fertility rate than those in common law.
Fertility Immigrants Marital status Women Children Quebec