Demographic Responses To Development: Sources Of Declining Fertility In The Philippines

Hackenberg, Robert A

ISBN 10: 0367020181 / ISBN 13: 9780367020187

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Beschreibung

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18387785116

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Demographic Responses To Development: Sources Of Declining Fertility In The Philippines
• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0367020181
• ISBN-13: 9780367020187
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

This study examines the causes of declining fertility in a major Southeast Asian nation, the Philippines. Although others maintain that increased use of family planning is the source of reduced reproductive rates throughout the region, the authors show that the reduction in birth rate in the 1970s was much greater than the drop in fertility among m

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert A. Hackenberg is professor of anthropology and research associate, Population Research Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, at the University of Colorado. He is also director of Davao Research and Planning Foundation, Inc., Davao City, Philippines. He has been engaged in field studies of economic and demographic change in the Philippines since 1969. Henry F. Magalit is professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. He has served as statistical consultant to the Population Institute, University of the Philippines, and to the National Census and Statistics Office. He has also been appointed research associate, Population Research Program Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado.