<Anchor> It is a
friendly economic time. Today (26th) will also be with reporter Kim Hye-min. Reporter Kim said that there are statistics and statistics that can show the lives of newlyweds in Korea.
<Reporter> The
National Statistical Office recently released the results of a survey of how newlyweds have changed over the past five years after getting married.
First-marriage couples who filed marriage registration between November 2014 and October 2015, and have lived in Korea for five years until 2019, and remain married are the targets of the survey, a total of 212,000 couples.
Since it is an economic section, let's take a closer look at the analysis that focuses on the economic activities of couples.
In terms of the ratio of double-income to single-income, when married, both couples were engaged in economic activities and maintained the same double-income for 5 years.
It was also followed by the percentage of couples who started out on single-income and kept it for five years.
Then, who will have more children, double-income or single-income?
The average number of children in single-income couples is 1.27, but only 1.12 in double-income couples.
In Korea, it is still difficult to combine work and parenting, so it seems that dual-income couples are hesitant to have children because they feel burdened with child-rearing.
<anchor>
Especially among couples, it is said that Korea has changed a lot so far, but women are inevitable to feel the burden of child-rearing. So, it seems that the number of children has a lot of influence on the wife's economic activities.
<Reporter>
That's right. Somehow, couples with children have had a big change in their wife's economic activities. The percentage of wives working at first was 57%, but then it gradually drops to 47.9%.
Then, in the 4th or 5th year of marriage, when the child grew up, he recovered a little, but still, the proportion is only a little over half.
On the other hand, the economic activity of a childless wife is about 60% at the beginning of the marriage, which is almost unchanged after 5 years.
Particularly with two children, the percentage of wives working decreases more than with one child.
It can be interpreted that the more children there are, the more often the wife has to quit the job, the more they have two or more.
As for <Anchor>
, it seems that women are still paying much more burdens on child-rearing in Korea. How many homes the couples who have just married have related information, too?
<Reporter>
Let's start with how much young couples own their homes. From the time of marriage until a year ago, 1 out of 3 couples have a home. After 5 years, more than half of the couples have purchased a home.
In addition, there was a difference in the ratio of housing ownership between dual-income couples and single-income couples.
It doesn’t make any difference when you first get married, but it spreads over time, so when you were married for 5 years, 62% of the couples who both continued to work have a home, while those who have been single-earning for 5 years Only 54% owned a home.
So, based on statistics, two-income couples had more homes instead of having fewer children, and single-income couples had relatively more children, but it was difficult to buy a home.
<Anchor>
Reporter Kim, was the last result that home ownership affected even the birth of newlyweds?
<Reporter>
Let's look at whether or not the couples own a home, excluding their economic activities.
The couple who owned a house for all five years had 1.16 children. On the other hand, if there was no home for five years, the number of children went down to 1.13.
Especially in the early days of marriage, homeless couples gave birth to more children, but from the second year onward, homeless couples reversed and were giving birth to more children.
Also, even if there is no home for up to one year after marriage, the average number of children has risen considerably to 1.19 and 1.18 if they have found a home after that.
It is interpreted that couples who buy a house without the burden of moving every few years and live in a stable manner feel much less burden of having and raising children than couples who live on a private or rent basis.
This is a result showing that childcare and real estate problems must be solved first in order to resolve the low birth rate.