Before and After 1947

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Family Planning Programme ◽  
Urban Sector ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After

This chapter considers population trends in the decades either side of Independence. It does so in three broad phases. The first phase is the 1920s and 1930s—when there was unprecedented population growth, and public discussion about birth control increased. The second phase is the turbulent 1940s; here particular attention is given to the demographic effects of the Bengal famine in 1943–44 and Partition in 1947. The final phase is the 1950s and 1960s—when there was a big fall in the death rate and, very cautiously, a family planning programme was introduced. The chapter also considers developments relating to the urban sector, migration, and regional demographic variation. It concludes by noting that, with little sign of a fall in the birth rate, by 1971 there was increasing disappointment and concern about the performance of the family planning programme.

Family-Planning Knowledge and Attitude Surveys in Pakistan (Review Article)

1964 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khurshid Haroon ◽  
Yasmin Azra Jan
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Family Planning Programme ◽  
The Family ◽  
National Family ◽  
National Family Planning ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
The Government

Very little of the intense interest and activity in the field of family planning in Pakistan has come up in the form of publications. Since the formation of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan in 1953 and the initiative of the government in promoting a national family-planning programme in its Second Five-Year Plan, relatively few reports have been printed. Most of what has been written in Pakistan about family planning has either been reported at conferences abroad or published in foreign journals, or submitted as graduate dissertations at universities within the country and abroad1. While numerous papers presented at conferences in Pakistan have been given limited circulation in mimeographed form2, much of the preliminary data, emanating from most of the action-research projects in progress, are held up till substantive demographic changes are measured and approaches evaluated accordingly.

Birth Control: Reversal or Postponement?

1960 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 59-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo A. Orleans
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Death Rate ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Vital Rates ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Annual Population

Whereas throughout most of the world the results of the 1953 censusregistration of Communist China, reporting a population of 582·6 million, evoked anxiety and even alarm, the Communists expressed only pride and overwhelming confidence. As a people “liberated from the oppressive chains of capitalism,” Communist leaders felt that their horizons were unlimited and that feeding and caring for a population of this size presented no problems under a system in which people are “the most precious of all categories of capital.” The simultaneous release of vital rates which indicated a birth rate of 37 per thousand population and a death rate of 17 per thousand, further stressed the “great vitality of the people of new China.” The 2 per cent, natural increase (excess of births over deaths), resulting in an annual population growth of some 12 million, was declared, in line with Marxist doctrine, to be an asset in a country with vast new lands and unexploited natural resources, where additional people create additional wealth.

scholarly journals Management of Acceptors: An Agenda for Effective Family Planning

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Mirza S Saiyadain
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Family Planning Programme ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Small Family ◽  
The Family

The mission of the family planning programme in India is to initiate a process of change in favour of the small family norm. In order to achieve this goal, Saiyadain feels that the strategy should be not only to attract what he terms the ‘uninitiated’ but also to sustain small family norm ‘acceptors.’

Male Attitudes to Family Planning Education in Santiago, Chile

1971 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.-Francoise Hall
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
English Text ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
South American ◽  
Family Planning Programme ◽  
Planning Education ◽  
The Family ◽  
Induced Abortions ◽  
Effective Contraception ◽  
Attitudes Toward Sex

Editorial note. The material presented below was originally recorded in an article by Dr Hall in Cuadernos Medico-Sociales, 10, 1969. This Chilean medical journal is published in Spanish and is relatively inaccessible in Europe. In view of the interest and importance of the attitude of the male to family planning, especially perhaps of the South American male, it seemed desirable to bring Dr Hall's findings to the attention of a wider audience. The paper which follows is a revised version of the original English text from which the Spanish translation was prepared. I am much obliged to Dr Hall for her cooperation.A survey of 584 men in Santiago and 217 men in an adjacent rural area showed that:(1) Men were favourable to family planning, both in their own personal relationships and for other adults. In all socio-economic strata, more respondents favoured giving information to men than women. It is suggested that male support be enlisted in efforts to reduce induced abortions.(2) Men favoured giving contraceptive information to youths of both sexes. The family planning programme, therefore, could provide information to adolescents at a time when attitudes toward sex are developing.(3) There was wide agreement that family planning education be discussed in schools ‘in accordance with the age of the children.’ There is thus an opportunity for the schools to help children develop a system of values within the framework of widely available effective contraception.

scholarly journals Family Limitation

1966 ◽  
Vol 59 (11P1) ◽  
pp. 1149-1153
Author(s):  
Robert Smith
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Specialist Service ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
Family Limitation ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Dr Robert Smith surveys the history of birth control and sounds a warning for the future of mankind, if the population explosion is allowed to continue unchecked. He stresses the importance of the role of the general practitioner in the limitation of births. Sir Theodore Fox describes the work of the Family Planning Association and stresses that, increasingly, this is a specialist service covering all aspects of fertility. He also feels that the general practitioner has a role in family planning.

Age at first marriage and fertility in rural Anhui, China

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quanhe Yang
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Fertility Survey ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Family Planning Programme ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage ◽  
The Family ◽  
Future Population

SummaryThis paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility. The data are from the 1/1000 Fertility Survey of China, conducted by the Family Planning Commission in 1982. Before the family planning programme was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at first marriage was mainly due to the family planning programme. More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one. But its effect on fertility is clear, and the shortening interval between marriage and first birth may bring difficulties for future population control in rural China.

scholarly journals Institutional Capacity and Control of Legitimate Birth Rate in Siberian Regions

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-405
Author(s):  
Evgenii Kapoguzov ◽  
Roman Chupin ◽  
Maria Kharlamova
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
National Project ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Target Indicator ◽  
Natural Birth ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
And Control

The research featured the decline of legitimate birth rate in the context of the transformation that family institution is currently undergoing. According to the Demography National project of the Russian Federation, the key objective of the national demographic policy is to increase the number of children up to 1.7 per woman. The authors believe that it is impossible to achieve the target indicator without revealing the institutional capacity of the so-called traditional family, which has a lower the level of birth control by abortion and contraception. In order to determine the institutional capacity of the national project, the authors estimated the legitimate birth rate and the level of birth control by the population. The methods involved the Coale-Trussell’s model, which is based on the assumption that controlled birth rate deviates from natural birth rate. The study was based on the data about the number of births in 2017. The data were obtained from twelve Siberian regions and included such information as maternal age and legitimacy. The Coale-Trussell’s model revealed a good institutional capacity that can enhance the demographic function of the family and increase the birth rate.

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