to investigate the agreement in Swedish childless couples' reproductive intentions, in terms of (1) expecting to have children or not, (2) time point for a first child, and (3) number of children, in relation to age.
cross-sectional data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study in 2009.
Sweden.
216 childless couples (216 women and 216 men)
questionnaire data on reproductive intentions. Descriptive analyses including Cohen's kappa were conducted for all couples, both for younger and older couples, where the woman was below or above the mean age for having the first child in Sweden, namely = 28 years (younger) and = 29 years (older).
agreement in the partners' expectations whether to have children or not was substantial but far from perfect (?=0.69), and it was higher in older couples (?=0.70) than in younger ones (?=0.51). Compared with younger couples, a higher proportion of older couples agreed not to have children or were uncertain (32% versus 5%; p