{"title":"Economic independence, family support and perceived health status of the elderly: recent evidence from India.","authors":"Saswata Ghosh, Z. Husain","doi":"10.18356/A893E520-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/A893E520-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"47-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67735663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a panel study of fertility behaviour conducted between 1997 and 2004 in rural Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan data collected from 12 communities showed a modest increase in contraceptive use over a six-year period. A majority of women had expressed a desire to limit family size in both years but despite that two thirds had a birth over the six years between the two surveys. This suggests a disassociation between stated fertility preferences and fertility behaviour and a persistent unmet need for contraception. The modest rise in contraceptive use occurred at the same time as village-based family planning services became more widely available. Although there was a weak correlation between the occurrence of births from 1997 to 2004 and contraceptive use in 2004 as some changes in the family planning service environment had occurred there were comparatively stronger correlations of these two variables with women’s schooling changes in access to schooling and an indicator of community level development. In terms of policy the findings therefore indicate that investment in human development in rural communities is just as important as family planning programmes for facilitating a reduction in fertility.
{"title":"Is fertility behaviour changing in Pakistan? Evidence from rural Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province 1997 and 2004.","authors":"Sharon J. Ghuman, Z. Sathar, C. Lloyd","doi":"10.18356/5fe64595-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/5fe64595-en","url":null,"abstract":"In a panel study of fertility behaviour conducted between 1997 and 2004 in rural Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan data collected from 12 communities showed a modest increase in contraceptive use over a six-year period. A majority of women had expressed a desire to limit family size in both years but despite that two thirds had a birth over the six years between the two surveys. This suggests a disassociation between stated fertility preferences and fertility behaviour and a persistent unmet need for contraception. The modest rise in contraceptive use occurred at the same time as village-based family planning services became more widely available. Although there was a weak correlation between the occurrence of births from 1997 to 2004 and contraceptive use in 2004 as some changes in the family planning service environment had occurred there were comparatively stronger correlations of these two variables with women’s schooling changes in access to schooling and an indicator of community level development. In terms of policy the findings therefore indicate that investment in human development in rural communities is just as important as family planning programmes for facilitating a reduction in fertility.","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67707549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Below to above replacement: Dramatic increase in fertility and its determinants in Sri Lanka","authors":"W. D. Silva, B. Perera, K. C. Anuranga","doi":"10.18356/EF4505C9-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/EF4505C9-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"27-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67771806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lack of knowledge and cultural or personal objections prevent women from using contraceptives even if they want to space or limit their pregnancies thus leading to an unmet need for contraception. Utilizing secondary data from 4129 ever-married women included in the 2000 Reproductive Health (RH) Baseline Surveys this article examines the relationship between selected psychosocial factors and unmet need. After controlling for the effects of attitude a low level of knowledge was significantly associated with either unmet need for spacing (p<0.001) or limiting (p<0.001). By contrast after controlling for the effects of age the number of living children knowledge and access to family planning services the association of negative attitude with unmet need was modified by educational level. In comparing women with a negative attitude to those with a positive one the adjusted odds ratio of having unmet need for spacing (OR=3.8 90 per cent CI=2.0-7.3) and unmet need for limiting (OR=2.2 90 per cent CI=1.2-4.0) was found to be highest among those with low levels education. Meanwhile no association existed between attitude and unmet need among women with tertiary education. These findings can be used to help family planning programme managers design and implement an effective unmet need strategy in the Philippines that targets subgroups of women with the highest priority. Accordingly strategies should increase knowledge about modern contraceptives and facilitate attitudinal change towards family planning particularly among women who do not attain a higher education.
{"title":"Addressing unmet need: potential for increasing contraceptive prevalence in the Philippines.","authors":"P. Acacio-Claro, M. Borja","doi":"10.18356/2c5be18b-en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/2c5be18b-en","url":null,"abstract":"Lack of knowledge and cultural or personal objections prevent women from using contraceptives even if they want to space or limit their pregnancies thus leading to an unmet need for contraception. Utilizing secondary data from 4129 ever-married women included in the 2000 Reproductive Health (RH) Baseline Surveys this article examines the relationship between selected psychosocial factors and unmet need. After controlling for the effects of attitude a low level of knowledge was significantly associated with either unmet need for spacing (p<0.001) or limiting (p<0.001). By contrast after controlling for the effects of age the number of living children knowledge and access to family planning services the association of negative attitude with unmet need was modified by educational level. In comparing women with a negative attitude to those with a positive one the adjusted odds ratio of having unmet need for spacing (OR=3.8 90 per cent CI=2.0-7.3) and unmet need for limiting (OR=2.2 90 per cent CI=1.2-4.0) was found to be highest among those with low levels education. Meanwhile no association existed between attitude and unmet need among women with tertiary education. These findings can be used to help family planning programme managers design and implement an effective unmet need strategy in the Philippines that targets subgroups of women with the highest priority. Accordingly strategies should increase knowledge about modern contraceptives and facilitate attitudinal change towards family planning particularly among women who do not attain a higher education.","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"5-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67687188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines the effect of remittances on return migration as it relates to household wealth. Using longitudinal data from Nang Rong an agrarian district located in Thailand’s north-eastern region the authors find that migrants’ sending of remittances is positively related to return migration but only when the amounts remitted are small. The authors argue for a signaling motive whereby the migrant sends money to the household to keep open the return option by maintaining membership rights in the origin household. They also find that the relationship between remittances and return migration only exists for migrants from households in the middle of the wealth continuum. Remittances from migrants of poorer and wealthier households are not related to return. Differences between households at various levels of wealth may reflect the need for remittances intentions to return a need for coinsurance or the absence of a household strategy altogether. Findings from this paper suggest that while a household economics approach may be more practical in describing strategies pursued by rural-to-urban migrants in developing countries theorists and policymakers may need to pay more attention to the different types of motivations followed by migrants and households at various points on the wealth continuum. Future work needs to be done to determine what types of migration motivations are undertaken by poorer households. Also policymakers should notice that only a small number of migrants return. Therefore policy efforts should focus on helping migrants at their destination especially if they are living in slum housing or working in hazardous occupations which may require better access to medical care.
{"title":"The effect of remittances on return migration and its relation to household wealth: The case of rural Thailand.","authors":"Y. Tong, M. Piotrowski","doi":"10.18356/E9B54764-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/E9B54764-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effect of remittances on return migration as it relates to household wealth. Using longitudinal data from Nang Rong an agrarian district located in Thailand’s north-eastern region the authors find that migrants’ sending of remittances is positively related to return migration but only when the amounts remitted are small. The authors argue for a signaling motive whereby the migrant sends money to the household to keep open the return option by maintaining membership rights in the origin household. They also find that the relationship between remittances and return migration only exists for migrants from households in the middle of the wealth continuum. Remittances from migrants of poorer and wealthier households are not related to return. Differences between households at various levels of wealth may reflect the need for remittances intentions to return a need for coinsurance or the absence of a household strategy altogether. Findings from this paper suggest that while a household economics approach may be more practical in describing strategies pursued by rural-to-urban migrants in developing countries theorists and policymakers may need to pay more attention to the different types of motivations followed by migrants and households at various points on the wealth continuum. Future work needs to be done to determine what types of migration motivations are undertaken by poorer households. Also policymakers should notice that only a small number of migrants return. Therefore policy efforts should focus on helping migrants at their destination especially if they are living in slum housing or working in hazardous occupations which may require better access to medical care.","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"25 1","pages":"53-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67768214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Progress accomplished since the International 95 Conference on Population and Development: a perspective of non-governmental organizations.","authors":"R. Karim","doi":"10.18356/E6F1BBB7-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/E6F1BBB7-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"95-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67766966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The global economic crisis and its likely impact on population activities (viewpoint).","authors":"Gavin W. Jones","doi":"10.18356/88549810-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/88549810-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"5-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67721118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linked response to reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: 73 capacity-building in sub-Saharan Africa and lessons learned for Asia and the Pacific.","authors":"W. Zaman, Hairudin Masnin","doi":"10.18356/3FDE8259-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/3FDE8259-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"73-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67697260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses the 23-year history of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) which was started in 1983 in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (CPC-UNC) the Office of Population Studies of the University of San Carlos (OPS-USC) and the Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP). After briefly presenting information on its origins and development in this introductory section the methodologies and strategies used in the research and some of its major findings and contributions are discussed before analyzing the challenges and lessons learned from the study. The article ends by identifying some best practices and offering some recommendations for other longitudinal studies.
{"title":"The Cebu longitudinal health and nutrition survey: two decades later.","authors":"A. Feranil, S. Gultiano, L. Adair","doi":"10.18356/CA188036-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/CA188036-EN","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the 23-year history of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) which was started in 1983 in collaboration with the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (CPC-UNC) the Office of Population Studies of the University of San Carlos (OPS-USC) and the Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP). After briefly presenting information on its origins and development in this introductory section the methodologies and strategies used in the research and some of its major findings and contributions are discussed before analyzing the challenges and lessons learned from the study. The article ends by identifying some best practices and offering some recommendations for other longitudinal studies.","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67754059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of intergenerational support on the changes in cognitive functioning of the rural elderly in China","authors":"Ping-Cheng Wang, Shuzhuo Li","doi":"10.18356/2B8A9DBD-EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18356/2B8A9DBD-EN","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72317,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific population journal","volume":"23 1","pages":"75-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67687287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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