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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Deliberate birth control under a high-fertility regime: reproductive

behavior in China before 1970.

AUTHORS

Zhao Z

SOURCE

POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. 1997 Dec;23(4):729-67.

ABSTRACT

Over the past 30 years, some of the most rapid fertility declines have occurred in populations of Chinese origin, even

in China's rural population. While socioeconomic development may have provoked and supported fertility decline in

Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and some of mainland China's major cities, it cannot explain comparable declines

in Chinese populations in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, where levels of socioeconomic development are

generally lower. Furthermore, the family planning programs and government involvement in those programs are very

different from those in China. In all of these populations, people of Chinese origin appear to have been more willing

to control their fertility than people of other ethnic origins. People have widely believed that until China's nationwide

family planning campaign was launched in the early 1970s, the Chinese preferred to have as many children as

possible. The author analyzed data from China's 1982 One-per-Thousand-Population Fertility Survey to gain insight

into why marital fertility rates were relatively low among the Chinese even before China's recent fertility decline.

Analysis of the data indicate that a considerable number of people deliberately controlled their fertility such that

couples who already had both sons and daughters tended to prolong their birth intervals and to stop having children

at relatively younger ages. The evidence suggests that the traditional Chinese culture may not have been as

pronatalist as people have commonly assumed. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 539-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Deliberate birth control under a high-fertility regime:

reproductive behavior in China before 1970.", is(are) Zhao Z. The source of this article is "POPULATION AND

DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. 1997 Dec;23(4):729-67.". This article was published in 1997 in English language(s).

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