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Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 16, Issue 3, 2001
Volume 16, Issue 3, 2001
Issued quarterly, this journal is an invaluable resource containing opinions and analysis by experts on critical issues related to population. It provides a medium for the international exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, technical information and data on all aspects of population.
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Unmet need for contraception in South Asia: Levels, trends and determinants
Author: Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury“Unmet need for family planning”, which refers to the condition of wanting to avoid or postpone childbearing but not using any method of contraception, has been a core concept in international population for more than three decades (Casterline and Sinding, 2000; Freedman, 1987). The importance of the unmet need for family planning or satisfying an individual’s reproductive aspirations as a rationale for formulating population programmes was further explicitly reiterated by the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which states that “Government goals for family planning should be defined in terms of unmet needs for information and services” and that “all countries should, over the next several years, assess the extent of national unmet need for good-quality family planning services (United Nations, 1994). ICPD+5 has called for a 50 per cent reduction in the unmet need for contraception by 2005 and its total reduction by 2015.
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Fertility decline in Sri Lanka: Are all ethnic groups party to the process?
Authors: P. Puvanarajan and W. Indralal De SilvaSri Lanka has played the role of a virtual laboratory in understanding the process of demographic transition in low-income countries. The advanced stages of demographic transition in any context entail irreversible population growth patterns that affect the population growth components of fertility, mortality and migration. The significant demographic transitional effects are the fertility changes that these communities undergo, tending towards achieving replacement or below replacement fertility levels (De Silva, 1994). It would therefore be of interest to investigate the course of such changes occurring in a heterogeneous society.
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Gender dimensions of migration in Kerala: Macro and micro evidence
Authors: K.C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya RajanWomen follow men in migration from Kerala; men follow women in migration back to that State. Female migrants are better qualified than male migrants, but a lower proportion of them obtain paid employment. Migration causes the separation of wives and husbands. The numbers are the same among both. Wives rarely migrate without husbands, but husbands migrating without wives accompanying them are more the rule than the exception. Men and women both have their own separate gains and losses arising from migration, but women are less capable of handling them without help from their spouses.
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Demographic impact of AIDs on the Thai population
Authors: Orratai Rhucharoenpornpanich and Aphichat ChamratrithirongThailand continues to feel the impact of a long-standing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AIDS epidemic. Encouraged by the ready availability of epidemiological and behavioural data, a number of modelling efforts have been undertaken in an attempt to understand the impact of the epidemic since 1990. However, as better models are developed and the course of the epidemic changes, owing to behaviourial modifications as well as advances in therapy, there remains an ongoing need to provide new estimates and projections of the impact of AIDS on the Thai population. This paper projects the important demographic parameters of population size and annual growth rate. In addition, mortality indicators such as the crude death rate, agespecific death rate, infant mortality rate, child mortality rate (1-4 years) and life expectancy at birth are projected. These projections are made through a comparison of two scenarios: in the absence of AIDS and with AIDS. The paper concludes with a discussion of some of the potential social and economic impacts of AIDS.
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