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International Journal of
Population Studies Low fertility intentions in China

accessible to everyone. However, this does not imply that with pseudonyms (e.g., Respondent 1, Respondent 2, etc.).
Weibo users have given their consent for researchers to The data collection process adhered to Weibo’s terms of
utilize their data (Snee, 2008). Due to the difficulty in service and was conducted responsibly.
requesting informed consent online (Sugiura et al., 2017),
no consent forms were sent to the respondents whose 2.4. Analytical framework
threads were extracted. However, this study has taken Figure 1 shows the analytical framework used in this paper.
measures to ensure confidentiality and minimize the First of all, the collected data was pre-processed to filter out
potential harm to respondents by not quoting sensitive or the ineligible threads. Next, based on the research focus,
identifiable information. The anonymity of all the collected the data of #Give me a reason for not having a second
data was maintained throughout the study. Specifically, the child# was processed for Chinese word segmentation, and
usernames of the respondents were removed and replaced data analysis was carried out using the TA technique. In

Figure 1. Analytical framework of this study

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