to ask how big your family was?

[Deliainthemaking]

Coursework statistics

past & present families
and the general view in the past families were bigger.

How big was you family?
How big is your family of children?
Do you come from a big/small family do you think it affects you??

I'd like to see who comes from the biggest :)

Mum is 1 of 3
Dad is 1 of 3 (1 child died)

MIL is 1 of 2
PIL is 1 of 1 originally then his father remarried in much later life and had 2 more 40+ years later

I'm 1 of 3
DH 1 of 2

We have 1 (hope to eventually make it 2)

Not sure how far back you want to go. My Mum's mum was one of 13, don't know about the others.

I am one of 3
DH is one of 2
We're both born in mid 70's

My mum is one of 5
My dad is one of 4
DH's mum is one of 4
DH's Dad is one of 5.
All born late 40's, early 50's.

Not sure about grandparents, only know about my maternal grandparents - Nanny was one of 11 (only 9 survived childhood) and Grandad was I think one of 3?
Grandparents born during or just after WW1.

Hope this helps.

Dad- 15 / 16 kids (didn;t know all, some died in inancy / war etc); 12 survived to the stage where I met them.

Mum- one of 4, number 3, number 4 very late accident so always thought to be last baby.

Me- eldest of three. Sisters very close but sister 3 born after I went to school so always felt very excluded and lonely.

DH- one of two. FIL would have liked more. Both his aprents from atypical units- MIL and her sister's mum ran away and they were in a home for a year before their dad could cope; FIL abandoned by 2 and fostered.

Us- 4 kids. I swore it was 2 or 4, wouldn't have done 3 so absolutely impact from my childhood. DH wanted a big family after coming from such a tiny unit with no extended family in existence. Almost stopped at 3 but lots of disability in the family and decided there was no way stupid autism was taking my dream of a big family from me no matter how hard it bloody tried.

I am 36
My mother is one of 4
My Father is one of 6

I am one of 3
DH one of 2 ( both DHs parents are only children)

We have 2 DDs.

Interestingly on my side of the family numbers of children are decreasing.

My mum - 3
Her Sis - 3
other sister - 3
brother - 4

But each one of their children ie. me and my cousins only went on to have only 1 or 2 children.

DHs family line is very small. Only children until DH and sister.

Thinking about friends families, it seems most of us are one of 3 children but only have 2 children ourselves. I know that my experiences as one of 3 have had a huge influence on my decisions regarding family size.

Born 1970
2 DB, me, DSis

DB 1: 2 DC
DB 2: No DC
Me: 1 DC, and pg
DSis: 2 DC

I am 28 and th eldest of four. I have 2DC and a third on the way.

My mum is one of two, dad is one of four.
Maternal grandparents:Gran on of eleven, Grandad one of six.
Paternal grandparents: Gran only child, she was adopted. Grandad one of two.

As the eldest of four i want a large family, and as my husband is the youngest of two he would like a large family too!

None of my siblings or brother in law have kids and only one really intends to.

My family has got smaller with each generation.

Nana was one of 12 (who survived to adulthood - there were 2 or 3 others who died as babies.)

Mum was one of 4

I am one of 2

I have one DD

Dad was one of 3.
Mum was one of 5.
I am one of 3.
I have 3 dc. Would like more if possible!
Neither of my sisters want to have dc.

On DH's side, FIL was one of 5, MIL was one of 3. They had 8 children. 3 of them have 2 dc, 1 has 3, 1 has 1, 1 has 0. None of them wanted large families.

I liked being one of 3, more siblings would have been nice. If we had the money, would have liked a big family.

dad, born in '20s, one of 6 - four survived to adulthood, his older sister had 3 children
mum, born 1940, 1 of 2, her brother has no children

dp is an only, her mum is too, her dad was 1 of 2

i'm 1 of 6, have 1 dc and hope to have another
1 sister has 1 dc and doesn't plan to have any more
my youngest sister may have children in due course, but otherwise that's it, i think.

My maternal grandparents came from large families (they were each one of 5 or 6 I think).

They had 5 children -- 4 boys and my mum.

Uncle #1 -- 2 children.
Uncle #2 -- 3 children.
Uncle #3 -- 2 children (one is a stepson).
Uncle #4 -- 2 children.

My mother had 4 daughters.

I am the eldest (born 1977) and have 2 children. I may have one more.

My next sister (born 1979) has 2 children.

My other two sisters (1986 and 1988) have no children yet.

Maternal great great gran parents - 3 kids (born between 1930 & 1935)
Maternal great grandparents - 1 child (born 1952)
Maternal grandparents - 2 children (born 1969 & 1975)
Paternal grandparents - 4 children (born 1960 - 1974)
Paternal Aunt 1 - 1 child (born 1970's)
Paternal Aunt 2 - 2 children (born 1980's)
Paternal Aunt 3 - 3 children (born 1982 - 1990)

I am 24 and the eldest of 4. (born 1986, 1995 & twins 2006)

I have one child born 2006.

Obviously as my siblings are only 16 & 5YO I will need to get back to you on how mnay they have ;o

This is fun to think about!

Both sets of my grandparents have a long line of boys ending in a girl (one side has 5 children, one has 4). I suspect the side with 5 would have stopped if they had gotten a girl sooner, the other side was happy to have children until my grandmother's disabilities made pregnancy dangerous.

My parents had 3 (didn't really want any though).

For my husband, one side had and wanted (and thinks people should only have) 1, though they adopted/took in another for a relative when they were older. His other side had 4, and like my side were happy (and were very happy to have all girls) to continue but his grandmother's health made them decide to not continue.

His mum and dad have 3, his stepdad had 2 but raised my husband as his third.

Both of us have one sibling with 1 child (and adamantly staying that way) and another who is firmly child-free.

We have three, would love to be blessed with more -- currently just hoping for a 4th, husband thinks 5-6 would be ideal, I waver depending on the day (I want 4, sometimes I think I want more than that). I find it very interesting we're so different from our siblings (yet have siblings so similar). I would say I would like a family like my grandparents with the 4 - who chose and prioritised family and were open to kids come what may - because they always seemed happy and satisfied together, even when my grandmother's health and disabilities got very bad.

My Dad is an only child.
My Mum is one of two (was three but one died as a child).
I'm 40 and the youngest of two (separated by 15 months).
My sister has no kids.

My FiL is one of five.
My MiL is an only child.
My DW is the youngest of two. Her brother has three.
We have one... so far. We'd like to have one more.

I have 1 sister, she has 1 daughter.
My Mum has 1 brother, he has 2 children.
My grandmother had 2 sisters
My grandfather had 15 brothers and sisters!!

My dad has 2 sisters
My grandmother had 1 sister and 1 brother
My grandfather had 2 brothers.

I have 2 children
My husband has 1 sister who has 2 sons.
His Mum has 1 brother
His Dad is a twin and has an older sister.

So nobody has a very big family except for my grandad!

Maternal grandmother was one of three (possibly only because she was a twin or they might have stopped at two).
maternal grandfather was one of two.
My mum has one brother.
Her brother has 3 boys

Paternal grandfather was one of 4. His father passed away when the youngest was very young so they may have had more otherwise.
Paternal grandmother was one of 2.
My was one of 3.
His brother has 2 and his sister has 3.

Dh and I have 4 but would love to have more.

Dh's brother has 5.

Dh's dad was one of 3 but one died in childhood.
Dh's mum is the youngest of 7! So she is the only person in our family that supports the theory that families are getting smaller.

Just seen this thread - wery interesting

I have 2 children
I am an only born 1964

My mother is one of 2 born 1932
My father was one of 2 born 1928 ot 27

Both sets of grandparents had several siblings each

DH is one of 3 born 1968, brothers don't have children
MIL is one of 3
FIL is one of 4

I can't see how any of this could help with statistics coursework.

course it could

look at numbrer of children in parents family, then how many tthey had, whack through stats software and see if there's a correlation or not.

Simple.

My mum was an only child my dad was one of 2.

DH is one of 2; both of his parents were only children.

We're having 2.

you can't just whack in it the software and look for a correlation! Whats the population, whats the sample, wheres the methodology, the measures? There are at least three badly phrased competing research questions in the OP, none of which can be answered this way. There couldn't be more wrong than throwing out a question like that (and not coming back to it by the way) and expecting any useable data!
Unless your aim is to fail your coursework.

I am one of three, DP is one of two. My parents were both one of two as well. Not really sure about grandparents as I never knew any of them very well, I think my maternal grandma was one of three though.

We don't have children yet, but want to have one (and only one!)

Winter you could with my current questions- we're learning to use SPSS, that's all weneed, numbers.

The research design is being done for a big (MA) project alongside but first we have to elarn to work the systems, by the time we have the actual results the taught sessions will be long past so we've been asked to grab data now. It won;r need to be assessed: just something to learn with IYSWIM.

Obv. have no idea what original OP is about of course.

if you put random numbers in your're not going to learn the systems well, because you won't be learning about what goes into it and what comes out. Thats just my own opinion, obviously, but SPSS is not easy and it seems a convoluted way of learning it to me.
But it certainly sounds like OP needs actual data, which this is not.

I'm 31 and have 1ds 1 dd

I'm I of 5 - 4 surviving 2 girls 2 boys

Mum 1of 2- 1girl 1boy

Maternal nan - 1 of 4 - 3 girls 1 boy
Maternal grandad - 1 of 2 boys

Dad - only child

Paternal nan 1 of 14
Paternal grandad only child