Rapid Population Change in China, 1952-1982

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National Academies Press, 1 jan. 1984 - 89 pagina's
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Pagina xii - To evaluate available evidence and prepare estimates of levels and trends of fertility and mortality in selected developing nations; 2. To improve the technologies for estimating fertility and mortality when only incomplete or inadequate data exist (including techniques of data collection) ; 3.
Pagina 2 - Total fertility rate (TFR): The average number of children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given set of agespecific fertility rates.
Pagina 41 - Figure 10 shows the annual value of the mean age at first marriage from 1950 to the first half of 1982. The mean age at first marriage calculated for the decade of the 1940s is little different from the mean for 1950 (18.46 compared with 18.68), but was a year higher than the average (17.52) for the Chinese farm population in 1929-31 (Barclay et al., 1976). The increase in mean age was §• g CD relatively gradual in the 1 950s and 1 960s and relatively rapid in the 1 970s.
Pagina 41 - The rise in age at marriage in the 1970s was certainly enhanced, = -j^- o if not altogether produced, by government pressure as part of the program to reduce the birth rate. The official policy was later marriage, longer birth intervals, and fewer children. Women were encouraged to postpone marriage until age 23 in the rural areas and until age 25 in the cities. From 1971 to 1979 £ - >, D.
Pagina 39 - The 1/1,000-sample survey conducted in 1982 by the Ministry of Family Planning collected retrospective data on marriages as well as on births. The report of the survey includes tables listing rates of first marriage by single years of age (the number of first marriages in a single-year age interval relative to the 5 §: = number of women in the interval) for each calendar year from 1949 to 1981.
Pagina 24 - The normal expectation in a population not gaining or losing significantly from migration is that the male/female ratio will be highest at birth (at about 106 males per 100 females) and decline more or less monotonically with age because of the general prevalence of higher male than female mortality rates.
Pagina iii - ... Pennsylvania WILLIAM SELTZER, Statistical Office, United Nations CONRAD TAEUBER, Kennedy Institute, Center for Population Research, Georgetown University ETIENNE VAN DE WALLE, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania ROBERT J. LAPHAM, Study Director NOTE: Members of the Committee and its panels and working groups participated in this project in their individual capacities; the listing of their organizational affiliation is for identification purposes only, and the views and designations...
Pagina 39 - It equals the proportion that would ever marry in a 6 5 o hypothetical cohort subject to the marriage rates of the year in question. PROPORTION EVER-MARRIED WOMEN AND THE FIRSTMARRIAGE RATE Actual cohorts of women in China achieve very close to 100 percent entry into marriage, as is evident in the proportion of women ever married by single...
Pagina 40 - ... the total firstmarriage rate was below 1.0 despite the ultimate achievement of nearly 100 percent ever married within each cohort. In 1980 the total first-marriage rate reached 1.14, higher than in any previous year except 1962; in 1981 and the first...

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