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Articles
Family Welfare Programme and Population Stabilization Strategies in India
The programme certainly needs to be focused at achieving various welfare-oriented targets rather than increasing the number of contraceptive acceptors.
By Arvind V. Zodgekar
Reproductive Preferences in Matlab, Bangladesh: Levels, Motivation and Differentials
Improvements in educational and employment opportunities for women and raising their status are needed to bring about a rapid decline in desired family size.
By Abdur Razzaque
Women's Education and Employment: Matlab Experience
There should be policies that would promote formal education among women and provide them with off-farm employment opportunities.
By S.R. Khan, A.M.R. Chowdhury, S.M. Ahmed and A. Bhuiya
Demographers' Notebook
Projecting Complete Cohort Fertility in Singapore
Family Welfare Programme and Population Stabilization Strategies in India
After tracing the development of the world's oldest family planning programme, the article describes some of the achievements and weaknesses of the related policies and programmes that were in force until the drafting of a new policy during this decade. It concludes with a number of recommendations that if implemented would make the programme sustainable over the long term.
Reproductive Preferences in Matlab, Bangladesh: Levels, Motivation and Differentials
This article examines whether reproductive preferences and the motivation behind the preferences are similar in two areas of Bangladesh; it also attempts to determine whether reproductive preferences vary by socio-demographic subgroups. In both areas, mean desired family size was found to be slightly over three children and women said that they preferred to have two sons. Also, it found that the economic cost of children and knowledge of family planning were mainly responsible for the small family-size desire. The article draws out a number of implications for policy and programme purposes.
Women's Education and Employment: Matlab Experience
This study attempts to assess women's educational impact on their employment activities and some other selected background characteristics. For this, the BRAC-ICDDR,B baseline survey data set, which was collected in 1992, was used in the analysis. The bivariate analysis demonstrated clearly the relative importance of education, which was positive and significant, on such characteristics as contraceptive use, number of living children, amount of savings and loans, hygiene practice and employment activity. The multivariate logit analysis revealed that generally a woman was more likely to be engaged in wage-earning activity if she had some level of education; the higher the level, the more likely that she would be employed. It also found that women's employment is closely related to their savings. The baseline results suggest that BRAC's socio-economic intervention of education and credit to Matlab people would be able to effect favourably their lives.
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