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Asia-Pacific Population Journal - Volume 15, Issue 3, 2000
Volume 15, Issue 3, 2000
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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Results of the 1998 population census in Cambodia
Authors: Jerrold W. Huguet, Aphichat Chamratrithirong, Nott Rama Rao and San Sy ThanThe population census conducted in Cambodia in March 1998 was the first since 1962. During the 36-year interval, comprehensive population data needed for social and economic planning had been lacking.
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The quality of care provided at union health and family welfare centres in Bangladesh: Clients’ perspectives
Authors: Parveen A. Khanum, Helene Wirzba, lndrani Haque, Tanjina Mirza and Therese JunckerThe Government of Bangladesh attempts to provide reproductive health services that emphasize maternal and child health (MCH) and family planning at different service delivery tiers through a variety of service providers. For this purpose, it has established an extensive network of reproductive health services that reaches almost every village in the country. Female field workers, known as family welfare assistants (FWAs), work at the grassroots level and provide information and counselling on various aspects of reproductive health and refer clients when necessary to clinics. They also distribute oral contraceptives and condoms at the homes of married women of reproductive age, identify pregnant women and refer them to static points of service delivery, i.e. health and family welfare centres, for ante-natal care and for obtaining clinical contraceptives.
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Influence of son preference on contraceptive use in Bangladesh
Authors: M. Asaduzzaman Khan and Parveen A. KhanumSon preference is commonly believed to be widespread in South Asia and in many developing countries, particularly where women are economically and socially dependent on men (Bairagi and Langsten, 1986; Arnold and Kuo, 1984; Cleland and others, 1983; Vlasoff, 1990). Analysing Demographic Health Survey data from 57 countries, Arnold (1997) showed that son preference remains strong in South Asian countries and, in that area, Bangladesh has the highest ratio of preference for sons over daughters. Sons are generally preferred over daughters owing to a complex interplay of economic and socio-cultural factors. Sons contribute more than daughters to family income, provide adequate support in old age to their parents, impose less of a financial burden and carry forward the family name (Nag, 1991; Ali, 1989). On the other hand, the birth of a daughter is seen as bringing neither ‘benefit” nor “prestige” to the family. Daughters are often considered as an economic liability because of the dowry system as well as the high cost of weddings. Once married, daughters become physically, as well as psychologically, isolated from their natal home and are seldom seen as making significant contributions to their natal family (Chowdhury, 1994). Thus, when the net utility of having a son outweighs that of having a daughter, parents are likely to prefer sons to daughters and may be reluctant to stop childbearing until their desired number of sons has been achieved.
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Gender, mobility and urban place in Fiji: From colonial to post-colonial wanderings
Author: Raymond YoungIn many traditional Pacific societies the strange and unknown world is the domain of males, those who were thought to have the strength and confidence to face the odds likely to be met. The female arena is the known, the less dangerous, usually domestic surroundings (Ravuvu, 1992:330).
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