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PubMed1976

Family sizes of children and family sizes of women.

This paper demonstrates the relation that obtains between the average family size of women and the average family size of offspring of those women. It estimates the value of these two measures for cohorts of American women aged 45-49 in various years from 1890 to 1970. It shows that children born during the post-war baby boom actually derived from smaller families than those born during the low-fertility 1930's; that under current patterns a woman would have to bear an average of almost two children fewer than were borne by her mother merely to keep population fertility rates constant from generation to generation; and that average family size for nonwhite children exceeds that for white by 50 percent, although the racial difference in family sizes of women is only 19 percent.

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PubMed1982

Sources of family size attitudes and family planning knowledge among rural Turkish youth.

Family planning programs in developing countries may have unexpected and long-term impact on youth in terms of their own later fertility behavior. This paper presents data indicating the effect of an adult-oriented family planning program on the family size attitudes and fertility-related knowledge of rural Turkish youth. Unmarried males and females living in villages exposed to different levels of family planning activities, as well as those in a control area, were sampled. A multivariate approach to the analysis was used to control for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and for certain psychological variables. Females desire fewer children than males and know more about contraception, particularly the IUD. The hypothesis of indirect learning as a result of the adult-oriented family planning program, is confirmed for females, but not for males. The findings have implications for both program planning and for a more accurate measurement of the impact of family planning programs.

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PubMed1978

Trends in fertility, family size preferences, and family planning practice: Taiwan, 1961-76.

A series of six sample surveys and vital statistics are used to analyze major reproductive trends for 1961-76 in Taiwan. Fertility fell rapidly during 1961-70 as a result of adoption of contraception and rising age at marriage, while there was little change in preferred family size. Between 1970 and 1976 the practice of contraception reached high levels in all social strata, and preferred family size and fertility both declined rapidly. Practice of contraception for spacing births increased considerably after 1970. These changes occurred while many traditional familial values, including strong son preference, persisted. A continuation of the decline in fertility is predicted.

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From one generation to the next: changes in fertility, family size preferences, and family planning in an Indian state between 1951 and 1975.

Over the last 25 years modernization in Karnataka, India, resulted in a large reduction in infant and child mortality, substantial increases in literacy, and initiation of an intensive family planning program. The drop in the birth rate during this period, however, was much less than would be anticipated under such circumstances. Two surveys carried out in 1951--52 and 1975 provide data on current and cumulative fertility, family size preferences, and knowledge and use of family planning. A comparison of these data leads to the conclusion that the level of family planning activities was not high enough to counteract the increase in the fertility of married women that was a consequence of modernization.

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Ideal family size.

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Male preference and family size.

The influence on family size of the sex of the first children was studied in a sample of 1851 families of students in Sevilla University. Significantly more families limited family size to two or three children when the two or three children were of the same sex than in the opposite case. Significantly more families limited family size to three children when not all the three first children were females. The frequency of families having more than three children is not increased to a larger extent when the three first children are males than in the other cases.

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PubMed1988

The proband method in psychiatric epidemiology: a bias associated with differences in family size.

Psychiatric epidemiology has traditionally employed both census and proband-based methods to determine the population prevalence of psychiatric disorders. In this article we outline a potential bias in the proband method. With this method, the probability of ascertainment for an individual depends on the number of available relatives. If the average size of families containing one or more affected individuals (RA) differs from the average size of families with no affected individuals (RU), then the ratio of the prevalence estimated by the proband method to the true prevalence is approximately [(RA - 1)/(RU - 1)]. For certain psychiatric disorders associated with decreased family size (e.g. schizophrenia), the underestimation of prevalence by the proband method may be non-trivial.

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PubMed1975

On a method for studying family size preferences.

The concept of desired family size is widely accepted, and numerous studies have been undertaken to measure its level in certain population groups. The determination of desired family size has generally followed the direct question procedure through which the respondent states some whole number as representing her family size wishes at some specified period in her life. Limitations of this method have been recognized, and some research has been conducted toward the development of other techniques of measuring desired family size. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a method of estimating desired family size based on the concept of paired comparison, where the response is restricted in order to reduce respondent bias. Emphasis is on estimation of parameters and test statistics appropriate for evaluating the applicability of the underlying model.

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