Effects of social factors on birth intention among employees between 20 and 49 in Tertiary General Hospitals in Gyeongin Region

The purpose of this study was to verify how social factors affect the birth intentions of medical employees at a senior general hospital based on a study related to the birth intentions of medical employees by occupation, and to suggest solutions to the low birth rate problem based on this analysis. The research method was to analyze the impact of social factors on fertility intention among 369 medical workers (102 males and 267 females) in their 20s and 40s at Gyeongin Regional Medical Center. Independent samples t-test was used to test for differences in economic issues, child care and facility issues, and fertility policy issues classified as social factors in this study, and logistic regression analysis was conducted to identify the factors affecting fertility intention. As a result of the analysis, the difference test of birth intention according to economic factors was tested to show a statistically significant difference at the significance level of 0.001, and it was confirmed that the group without birth intention felt more burdened by economic factors, and the average of economic factors in the group with birth intention was lower. The difference test for fertility policy issues by fertility intention was statistically significance level. At the 0and the intention to have children group had higher scores on fertility policy issues, indicating that they had more positive demands for fertility policy issues. In the semi-variate approach, gender, age, final education, marital status, spouse's final education, working status, number of children, economic factors, and fertility policy issues were tested to have a statistically significant effect on fertility intentions, and a multivariate logistic regression analysis was estimated with all of these independent variables, and gender, final education, working status, economic factors, and fertility policy issues were finally selected as significant variables. The results of the study showed that the fertility rate of women was 57% lower than that of men among medical workers in their 20s and 40s at Gyeongin Regional Advanced General Hospital; in terms of final education, the fertility rate of college graduates was 2.4 times higher than that of high school graduates and vocational college graduates; and the fertility rate of dual-income earners was 3.5 times higher than that of non-dual-income earners. Based on this basic research, we hope to improve the fertility rate by further researching solutions to the fundamental problem of childbirth avoidance among Korean women in their 20s and 40s and supporting policies and solutions that lead to childbearing.