Socio-demographic portrait and demographic values of pro-natalists and anti-natalists in Russia: assessment based on data from the social network VKontakte

The dataset contains data from personal profiles of social network users VKontakte - socio-demographic characteristics (gender, age, date of birth, marital status, country and city of residence) and indicators of demographic values (“the main thing in life”, attitude to alcohol, attitude to smoking, pronatalist or anti-natalist), as well as a number of other indicators - religious and political beliefs,
"the main thing in people." Initially, as a selection criterion, the authors used belonging user to the relevant communities (groups) of the VKontakte social network, sharing different family and reproductive values (to be a parent, to give birth child, start a family or profess the values of childfree philosophy). For example, persons who were members of groups devoted to "childfree" values were assigned the status "anti-natalist". And individuals in groups devoted to issues of childbirth and family values, parenthood, were assigned the status of "pronatalist". For example, groups with the names "GOOD PARENTS" (https://vk.com/club52388302) and "MOM: Development, Family, Children" (https://vk.com/club69716165) are pronatalist, and groups "The TRUTH about Childfree (Childfree)" (https://vk.com/club58565280) and "Overheard Childfree" (https://vk.com/club69265846) - to anti-natalist ones. The authors extracted comments of users of these two types of groups in the social network VKontakte, applying methods of extraction (parsing) of data from social networks using VK API. Organized open access to databases compiled by us from hundreds
thousand comments from users of dozens of groups of two types in more than one and a half decades [Kalabikhina & Banin, 2020; Kalabikhina & Banin, 2021]. Further, the authors linked the data of their personal data to users from these groups.
questionnaires. At the second stage, the resulting sample was additionally corrected - in it only those persons who filled in the field "The main thing in life" in the personal questionnaire on VKontakte to determine priority values for users with different types of reproductive behavior. Include in the analysis only those users who answered the question from personal questionnaire on VKontakte about what is most important for them in life, allows reduce the risk of "bots" getting into the sample. We believe that in the questionnaires of bots such fields as "The main thing in life", "The main thing in people" will not be filled in, the indication of this
information in the personal profile testifies in favor of the fact that the account is really belongs to a real person. At this stage, the sample included 754,315 users. Additionally, we limited the sample according to the age indicated in the questionnaire. We excluded from the sample users who indicated their age of 80 years and older. We we believe that this is an indirect sign by which it is possible to identify accounts with inaccurate information. The final sample after the introduced restrictions was 377,786 people, it includes users of the social network VKontakte, consisting of groups of anti-natalists and pro-natalists who filled in the information section about themselves item "The main thing in life" minus persons who indicated in the questionnaire that they are over 80 years old.