Table 1 Demographic characteristics of participants
From: Attitudes toward posthumous assisted reproduction in China: a multi-dimensional survey
The general public (N = 2076) | IVF patients (N = 432) | ART practitioners (N = 304) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Items | N (%) | Items | N (%) | Items | N (%) |
Gender | Â | Age (y) | Â | Age (y) | Â |
Male | 644 (31.02%) | 23–34 | 280 (64.81%) | 20–29 | 96 (31.59%) |
Female | 1432 (68.98%) | 35–44 | 152 (35.19%) | 30–39 | 131 (43.09%) |
Age (y) |  | Education |  | 40–49 | 62 (20.39%) |
18–24 | 509 (24.52%) | Below college | 188 (43.52%) |  ≥ 50 | 15 (4.93%) |
25–34 | 1058 (50.96%) | College | 182 (42.13%) | Education |  |
35–44 | 309 (14.88%) | Post-graduate | 62 (14.35%) | Bachelor&Below | 139 (45.72%) |
 ≥ 45 | 196 (9.44%) | Occupation |  | Master degree | 126 (41.45%) |
Education | Â | Liberal work | 51 (11.81%) | PHD degree | 39 (12.83%) |
Below college | 270 (13.01%) | Business | 138 (31.94%) | Occupation | Â |
College | 1300 (62.62%) | General staff | 162 (37.50%) | Male-specialist | 36 (11.84%) |
Post-graduate | 506 (24.37%) | Technical post | 81 (18.75%) | Female-specialist | 107 (35.20%) |
Occupation | Â | Monthly income (Â¥) | Â | Nurse | 91 (29.93%) |
Liberal work | 367 (17.68%) | ≤ 3000 | 99 (22.92%) | Lab-technicians | 70 (23.03%) |
Business | 120 (5.78%) | 3001–6000 | 153 (35.42%) | Professional level |  |
General staff | 414 (19.94%) | 6001–9000 | 82 (18.98%) | Primary | 95 (31.25%) |
Technical post | 1175 (56.60%) | ≥ 9001 | 98 (22.68%) | Secondary | 112 (36.84%) |
Monthly income (Â¥) | Â | Religion | Â | Vice-senior | 64 (21.05%) |
 ≤ 3000 | 494 (23.80%) | Buddhism | 120 (27.78%) | Senior | 33 (10.86%) |
3001–6000 | 485 (23.36%) | Christian | 4 (0.93%) | Marital status |  |
6001–9000 | 455 (21.92%) | Others | 10 (2.31%) | Married | 193 (63.49%) |
 ≥ 9001 | 642 (30.92%) | No | 298 (68.98%) | Single | 111 (35.51%) |
Religion | Â | Registration | Â | Pregnancy history | Â |
Buddhism | 299 (14.40%) | Rural | 272 (62.961%) | Yes | 162 (53.29%) |
Christian | 48 (2.31%) | Urban | 160 (37.04%) | No | 142 (46.71%) |
Others | 65 (3.13%) | Marital status |  | Conceived manner | (N = 162) |
No | 1664 (80.15%) | First | 375 (86.81%) | Nature | 130 (80.25%) |
Registration | Â | Remarried | 57 (13.19%) | ART | 32 (19.75%) |
Rural | 757 (36.45%) | Years of infertile |  | Children | (N = 162) |
Urban | 1319 (63.54%) |  ≤ 1 | 27 (6.25%) | 1 | 86 (53.09%) |
Marital status |  | 1–4 | 199 (46.07%) |  ≥ 2 | 55 (33.95%) |
Married | 1224 (58.96%) | 4–7 | 156 (36.11%) | None | 21 (12.96%) |
Single | 852 (41.04%) |  ≥ 7 | 50 (11.57%) |  |  |
Marriage (y) | (N = 1224) | Pregnancy history |  |  |  |
 ≤ 1 | 106 (8.66%) | Yes | 196 (45.37%) |  |  |
2–4 | 275 (22.47%) | No | 236 (54.63%) |  |  |
4–7 | 267 (21.81%) | Conceived manner | (N = 196) |  |  |
 ≥ 7 | 576 (47.06%) | Nature | 106 (54.08%) |  |  |
Pregnancy history | Â | ART | 90 (45.92%) | Â | Â |
Yes | 1067 (51.40%) | Children | (N = 196) |  |  |
No | 1009 (48.60%) | 1 | 83 (42.35%) | Â | Â |
Conceived manner | (N = 1067) |  ≥ 2 | 18 (9.18%) |  |  |
Nature | 1040 (97.47%) | None | 95 (48.47%) | Â | Â |
ART | 27 (2.53%) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Children | (N = 1224) |  |  |  |  |
1 | 546 (44.61%) | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 ≥ 2 | 378 (30.88%) |  |  |  |  |
None | 300 (24.51%) | Â | Â | Â | Â |