Full Description
This study examines the causes of declining fertility in a major Southeast Asian nation, the Philippines. Although others maintain that increased use of family planning is the source of reduced reproductive rates throughout the region, the authors show that the reduction in birth rate in the 1970s was much greater than the drop in fertility among m
Contents
Westview Replica Editions -- Explanatory Note on Dating in Tabular Material -- Preface -- Overview and Summary -- Regional Population Issues and the 1978 Philippine Area Fertility Survey -- Recent Trends in Philippine Fertility: The Advancing Transition, 1970-1975 -- Current Philippine Fertility: The Continuing Advance, 1977 -- Intermediate Fertility Variables I: Population Structure and Marital Composition -- Intermediate Fertility Variables II: Contraception -- Indirect Fertility Determinants I: Characteristics of Eligible Women -- Indirect Fertility Determinants II: Characteristics of Household and Household Head -- Socioeconomic Change and Demographic Response: Philippine Population Processes in the 70s -- Appendix Tables
