Gavin W Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 104366 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gavin W Jones |
| NOMBRES | Gavin W |
| APELLIDO | Jones |
| FIRMA | JONES G W |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7114-5053 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 95 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 828 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Emerging Dimensions of Marriage in Asia
This article contextualizes and highlights findings from the 14 articles included in this special issue that aims to examine emerging dimensions in Asia. The articles cover a wide range of topics and all make an original contribution to our understanding of different aspects of marriage in the region. The vast diversity in East, Southeast, and South Asia continues to be observed ranging from universal marriage and the high prevalence of child mar…
Men's Marriage Trends in Asia
Focusing on men's negotiation of traditional norms and new gender dynamics amidst rapid social changes, the current study reveals nuanced trends and inter-regional heterogeneity in marriage behavior of men during the past decades in Asian societies. Since the 1970s, marriage age for men across Asia has risen and the slope of change is especially sharp in East Asia; while men in East and Southeast Asia increasingly remain single in their 30s and e…
Impact of Covid-19 on mortality in Asia
The SARS-CoV-2 virus (termed COVID-19) has raised the mortality trends and diminished life expectancy globally. The impact of COVID-19 on mortality. however, differs across population groups, times, and locations. The current study examines some aspects of COVID-19’s impact on mortality in Asia using published estimates of excess mortality. The estimates of excess mortality all showed higher death rates than officially reported for Asian countrie…
Muslim and non-Muslim divorce trends in Southeast Asia in the 21st century
New patterns of female migration in South Asia
South Asian countries show different patterns of internal migration according to gender. In India, females have long dominated internal migration flows; censuses between 1971 and 2011 show that aro
Ultra-low fertility in East Asia
In the countries of East and Southeast Asia where fertility has reached ultra-low levels, there has been a flurry of developments in pro-natalist policy over the past five years or so, but its impact appears to be limited. This paper addresses the strong obstacles hindering the success of pro-natalist policies in the region, suggests key interventions that are needed, and stresses that the policies in these countries should also be considering ot…
Families in Southeast and South Asia
Southeast and South Asia are home to one-third of the world's population. Their great economic and cultural diversity makes generalization about family patterns and trends hazardous. We review literature on trends in fertility, marriage, divorce, and living arrangements in the past half century. The explanations for these trends focus on structural and ideological changes related to socioeconomic development; cultural factors including kinship sy…
Migration, Ethnicity, and the Educational Gradient in the Jakarta Mega-Urban Region
The Jakarta mega-urban region (MUR) is one of the largest such regions in the world. In this article, we revisit Castles’s seminal 1967 article, based on the 1961 Population Census of Indonesia, on the educational and ethnic composition of Jakarta. Using data from the full-count 2010 Population Census, we examine spatial patterns in the educational gradients of the population across the Jakarta MUR and look to determine whether these patterns can…
Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia
Various forms of partnering - such as officially registered marriages, cohabiting relationships, and other kinds of relatively stable relationships - are crucial in the formation of families throughout the world. Although, today, forms of partnering in the region are not restricted to formal marriage, the norm remains for couples to marry - to establish a new family, and to accept the cultural requirement to have children. This book provides a co…
Marriage in Asia
This introductory article provides some comparative background on marriage trends in Asia, to show where the countries included in this special issue fit into overall Asian and international patterns. It also notes the contribution of different chapters to our understanding of these issues. This special issue gives readers a taste of the diversity of Asia, by including articles on countries from Turkey in the west to the Philippines in the east, …
Levels of urbanization in the world’s countries
Marriage Migration in Asia
Population Policy in a Prosperous City-State
Singapore has achieved one of the highest levels of per capita income in the world, through sound economic planning and a stress on building its human capital. Yet its enviable living conditions are at risk of being enjoyed by fewer citizens, and indeed themselves placed in jeopardy, by the continued very low fertility levels. Ultra-low fertility and growing reluctance by citizens to accept an increasing share of foreign-born pose difficult dilem…
Understanding High Levels of Singlehood in Singapore
The trend towards late marriage and nonmarriage has characterized East and Southeast Asia over the past three decades. Singlehood levels in Singapore are high, particularly among the Chinese population. Based on a recent qualitative study on 30 single Singaporeans of Chinese descent, the paper examines a number of factors relevant to the high level of singlehood among Chinese population in Singapore. The high financial and opportunity costs of ma…
Divorce in Asia
Divorce Trends in Asia
Population and development beyond the first demographic transition
This paper covers a wide scope, focusing on some trends in East and Southeast Asia that may be of interest to Latin America. The first demographic transition has essentially been completed in both regions. The issue is what should now be the focus of our consideration of population and development? East Asian countries are now stressing issues of ultra-low fertility, and policies to raise fertility. They are not comfortable with the prospect of m…
East Asian Childbearing Patterns and Policy Developments
Childbearing behavior in East Asian countries has changed rapidly during the past half century from an average of five to seven children per family, to replacement-level fertility, and subsequently to unprecedentedly low levels, the lowest in the world. This article analyzes fertility trends in Hong Kong, Japan, singapore, south Korea, and Taiwan using cohort fertility data and methods, then examines social and economic causes of the childbearing…
Muslim-Non-Muslim Marriage
"This is an excellent and rare exploration of a sensitive religious issue from many perspectives – legal, cultural and political. The case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand portray the important and exciting, yet very difficult, negotiation of Islamic teachings in the changing realities of Southeast Asia, home to the majority of Muslims in the world. Interreligious marriage is an important indicator of good relations betwee…
Factors Influencing Changes in Mean Age at First Marriage and Proportions Never Marrying in the Low-Fertility Countries of East and Southeast Asia
The long-term trend towards later and less marriage in the low-fertility countries of East and Southeast Asia has continued into the early years of the twenty-first century, and indeed accelerated in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This paper examines the extent to which this is a general trend cutting across all educational attainment groups, and the extent to which it can be explained by increasing proportions in the educational categories chara…
Population Ageing in Asia and Its Implications for Mobility
International marriage in East and Southeast Asia
This paper gives an overview on international marriage in East and Southeast Asia. It first reviews the available data on the incidence and trends of transnational marriage. It then discusses the factors generally cited as contributing to the rising incidence of international marriage in the region: the increased mobility of population, particularly with respect to tourism, business travel, short-term employment and international study; and marri…
Delayed Marriage and Very Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
The general decline in fertility levels in Pacific Asia has in its vanguard countries where fertility rates are among the lowest in the world. A related trend is toward delayed marriage and nonmarriage. When prevalence of cohabitation in European countries is allowed for, levels of "effective singlehood" in many countries of Pacific Asia have run ahead of those in northern and western Europe. This raises questions about the extent to which delaye…
A demographic perspective on the Muslim world
Coalitions of the Well-Being
Delayed Marriage and Very Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
The general decline in fertility levels in Pacific Asia has in its vanguard countries where fertility rates are among the lowest in the world. A related trend is toward delayed marriage and nonmarriage. When prevalence of cohabitation in European countries is allowed for, levels of "effective singlehood" in many countries of Pacific Asia have run ahead of those in northern and western Europe. This raises questions about the extent to which delaye…
East Asian Childbearing Patterns and Policy Developments
Childbearing behavior in East Asian countries has changed rapidly during the past half century from an average of five to seven children per family, to replacement-level fertility, and subsequently to unprecedentedly low levels, the lowest in the world. This article analyzes fertility trends in Hong Kong, Japan, singapore, south Korea, and Taiwan using cohort fertility data and methods, then examines social and economic causes of the childbearing…
Families in Southeast and South Asia
Southeast and South Asia are home to one-third of the world's population. Their great economic and cultural diversity makes generalization about family patterns and trends hazardous. We review literature on trends in fertility, marriage, divorce, and living arrangements in the past half century. The explanations for these trends focus on structural and ideological changes related to socioeconomic development; cultural factors including kinship sy…
Factors Influencing Changes in Mean Age at First Marriage and Proportions Never Marrying in the Low-Fertility Countries of East and Southeast Asia
The long-term trend towards later and less marriage in the low-fertility countries of East and Southeast Asia has continued into the early years of the twenty-first century, and indeed accelerated in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. This paper examines the extent to which this is a general trend cutting across all educational attainment groups, and the extent to which it can be explained by increasing proportions in the educational categories chara…
The "Flight From Marriage" in South-East and East Asia
Over recent decades, a traditional characteristic of South-East and East Asia - the universality of marriage - has ended. The change has been dramatic and widespread, though variable across regions and socio-economic groups. The proportion of women remaining single in their 30s and 40s has climbed sharply, especially in the large cities and among the better educated. The proportion single among men has also risen, though the patterns have not par…
International marriage in East and Southeast Asia
This paper gives an overview on international marriage in East and Southeast Asia. It first reviews the available data on the incidence and trends of transnational marriage. It then discusses the factors generally cited as contributing to the rising incidence of international marriage in the region: the increased mobility of population, particularly with respect to tourism, business travel, short-term employment and international study; and marri…
Marriage in Asia
This introductory article provides some comparative background on marriage trends in Asia, to show where the countries included in this special issue fit into overall Asian and international patterns. It also notes the contribution of different chapters to our understanding of these issues. This special issue gives readers a taste of the diversity of Asia, by including articles on countries from Turkey in the west to the Philippines in the east, …
Divorce Trends in Asia
Ultra-low fertility in East Asia
In the countries of East and Southeast Asia where fertility has reached ultra-low levels, there has been a flurry of developments in pro-natalist policy over the past five years or so, but its impact appears to be limited. This paper addresses the strong obstacles hindering the success of pro-natalist policies in the region, suggests key interventions that are needed, and stresses that the policies in these countries should also be considering ot…
Modernization and Divorce
The author investigates differences in divorce rates in Western countries and in Southeast Asia. First the general divorce rate trends...are elucidated using more-refined measures. Then the likely causes of the separate trends in Western countries and in Islamic Southeast Asia are examined to determine whether there is a unified explanation for the trends that is consistent with broader theories about divorce or whether the idiosyncratic features…
Malay Marriage and Divorce in Peninsular Malaysia
In the 1950s nuptiality among the Malays of Peninsular Malaysia was characterized by early near universal marriage polygyny and a high incidence of divorce--a pattern common to most Muslim societies. The past 3 and especially the past 2 decades have witnessed a sharp rise in age at marriage for females sharp declines in the incidence of divorce and of polygymy and a narrowing of the age difference between husbands and wives. These interrelated tr…
Southeast Asian urbanization and the growth of mega-urban regions
Revolution, war and modernization
Post-Cairo Population Policy
This article discusses the shortfalls of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) regarding the closing of the gender gap in schooling and the goal of social justice. It is argued that the deficits in socioeconomic status are compelling forces influencing educational status. The examples of Thailand and Viet Nam illustrate that socioeconomic inequalities in both nonsocialist and socialist developing countries a…
Population Policy in a Prosperous City-State
Singapore has achieved one of the highest levels of per capita income in the world, through sound economic planning and a stress on building its human capital. Yet its enviable living conditions are at risk of being enjoyed by fewer citizens, and indeed themselves placed in jeopardy, by the continued very low fertility levels. Ultra-low fertility and growing reluctance by citizens to accept an increasing share of foreign-born pose difficult dilem…
Women in the Urban and Industrial Workforce
The rapid social and economic development taking place in the non-socialist countries of Southeast and East Asia is nowhere more apparent than it is in the economic activities of women. Steady urbanization is taking place, and among the grow ing number of women in urban areas, an increasing proportion were in the labour force over the 1972s. This change has been due to many factors: changing economic structure and therefore changing employment op…
The throughgoing urbanisation of East and Southeast Asia
The image of East and Southeast Asia is of a predominantly rural region, with the exception of Japan. This image no longer reflects reality. Although in 2000 the proportion of the population living in areas officially defined as urban will still be below 40 percent, this understates the degree to which populations throughout the region have, in terms of employment, ease of transport and communications, been brought into a close relationship with …
Understanding High Levels of Singlehood in Singapore
The trend towards late marriage and nonmarriage has characterized East and Southeast Asia over the past three decades. Singlehood levels in Singapore are high, particularly among the Chinese population. Based on a recent qualitative study on 30 single Singaporeans of Chinese descent, the paper examines a number of factors relevant to the high level of singlehood among Chinese population in Singapore. The high financial and opportunity costs of ma…
Fertility Transitions Among Malay Populations of Southeast Asia
The recent fertility trends of the Malay populations in Indonesia Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore are examined as the validity of various fertility theories has been challenged. The fertility transition for the Singapore Malays occurred a decade later compared with the Chinese lasting from 1964 to 1976 during which time fertility dropped by 75% and replacement level fertility was reached for both groups in 1975. Marital fertility accounted for …
Links Between Urbanization and Sectoral Shifts in Employment in Java
The relationship between urbanization and changes in the employment structure in Indonesia is analyzed. In particular, the author examines whether changes in the occupational structure in rural areas can have any effect in slowing the general shift in economic emphasis to urban areas, whether nonagricultural economic activities can be developed in rural areas, and what policies are needed to assist the transformation of the rural employment secto…
Levels of urbanization in the world’s countries
Use of Oral Contraceptives
Statistics on the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) in the developing or developed countries are presented along with data on acceptance and continuation rates and problems in the interpretation of such data are discussed. By mid-1967 about 13 million were using OCs worldwide 22% of whom were living in the developing countries. However the increase in OC use in developing countries from 1965-1967 was almost 2 1/2 times higher than in developed cou…
Marriage Migration in Asia
Divorce in West Java
This paper traces trends in divorce rates in West Java over the past 40 years. West Java's divorce rate was among the highest in the world in the 1950s and 1960s; by the mid-1980s, it was about one fifth as high as that in the United States. Regional differentials were, and still are, quite pronounced. The differentials appear to be related more to cultural than to socio-economic differences. The sharp declines have been related to social and eco…
Schooling in Indonesia
Though Indonesia had been making considerable progress in expanding its education system before the economic crisis broke in 1997, 30% of children were still failing to complete primary school, and the quality of education was far from satisfactory. The economic crisis threatened to lead to massive dropout, and social safety net programs were therefore introduced. This paper outlines issues facing primary and secondary education before and during…
The Growth and Changing Structure of the Indonesian Labour Force, 1930-81∗
∗ For lack of adequate data, West Irian will be omitted from the discussion throughout. Notes ∗ For lack of adequate data, West Irian will be omitted from the discussion throughout
Use of Oral Contraceptives
Statistics on the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) in the developing or developed countries are presented along with data on acceptance and continuation rates and problems in the interpretation of such data are discussed. By mid-1967 about 13 million were using OCs worldwide 22% of whom were living in the developing countries. However the increase in OC use in developing countries from 1965-1967 was almost 2 1/2 times higher than in developed cou…
Roman Catholic Fertility and Family Planning
The effects of differing trends in fertility and of educational advance on the growth, quality, and turnover of the labor force
Relativamente, pocos intentas se han hecho para investigar el efecta de diferentes tendencias de la fecundidad sobre el subsiguiente crecimiento, la composición por edades y el cambio en la fuerza de trabajo en los paises subdesarrollados. Aún menor atención se le ha prestado a la interrelación entre tendencias alternativas de fecundidad y trayectorias alternativas de avance educacional, en la determinación de la “calidad” y cambio de la fuerza d…
The Effects of Differing Trends in Fertility and of Educational Advance on the Growth, Quality, and Turnover of the Labor Force
Gavin Jones, Paul Gingrich, The Effects of Differing Trends in Fertility and of Educational Advance on the Growth, Quality, and Turnover of the Labor Force, Demography, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1968), pp. 226-248
Thailand
Chitt Hemachudha, Winich Asavasena, Somsak Varakamin, Allan G. Rosenfield, Gavin Jones, J. Oscar Alers, Thailand, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 3, No. 7, East Asia Review, 1971 (Jul., 1972), pp. 151-156
Organisation de l'enseignement dans les pays en développement. Incidences de la croissance démographique
Underutilisation of Labour in Palembang and Ujung Pandang
The authors wish to acknowledge the guidance and encouragement of Dr. N. Iskandar, Director of the Demographic Institute, in the planning, conduct and analysis of the labour force survey on which this paper is based
The Validity of Family Planning Statistics
Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations
Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations
Religion and Education in Indonesia
To a considerable degree, religion as a source of conflict in Indonesia has been desensitized by the government's careful adherence to a policy of religious freedom. Enshrined as the first principle of the Pancasila, the five principles adopted at the time of Independence, is in God. Admittedly it is mandatory to have such a belief, but the particular form this belief should take is not specified. Although in the 1971 census 87.5 percent of Indon…
Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations
Population Growth and Educational Planning in Developing Nations
Fertility levels and trends in Indonesia
Fertility estimates from the 1973 Indonesian Fertility Mortality Survey are presented and compared with estimates from the 1971 population census. Although there are some differences, on the whole the two sources are remarkably consistent, indicating the same regional differentials: highest fertility in Sumatra (T.F.R. in rural areas around 7.0), followed by West Java and Sulawesi, Bali, then Central and East Java (T.F.R. in rural areas around 50…
Sectoral Employment-Output Coefficients in Indonesia Since 1961
Levels and Trends in Fertility and Childhood Mortality in Indonesia
Trends in marriage and divorce in Peninsular Malaysia
Median age at marriage for women has risen sharply for each of the three major ethnic groups - Malays, Chinese and Indians, in Peninsular Malaysia since 1957. The sharpest rise has been recorded for Malays and Indians, whose median age at marriage was barely over 17 in 1957. A shortage of potential husbands in the traditionally sanctioned ages contributed to the rise for Malays and Indians, but was probably not the paramount reason; average age d…
The Population of North Sulawesi
Malay Marriage and Divorce in Peninsular Malaysia
In the 1950s nuptiality among the Malays of Peninsular Malaysia was characterized by early near universal marriage polygyny and a high incidence of divorce--a pattern common to most Muslim societies. The past 3 and especially the past 2 decades have witnessed a sharp rise in age at marriage for females sharp declines in the incidence of divorce and of polygymy and a narrowing of the age difference between husbands and wives. These interrelated tr…
China's Population
Population Mobility and Development
This publication contains papers from an international conference held in 1980 to examine internal migration and its implications for economic development in Southeast Asia and the Pacific region. Papers in Part 1 are concerned with the variety and forms of population mobility with a focus on circular or temporary population movements. In Parts 2 and 3 findings are presented from micro-level studies of population mobility in the region as a whole…
Population Trends and Policies in Vietnam
Vietnam in recent years has succeeded in lowering both its death and birth rates. The rate of natural increase has fallen somewhat, but was on the order of 2.4 or 2.5 percent per annum in 1980, sufficient if continued to double the population in about 28 years. This rate of increase occasions great concern in official planning circles, given Vietnam's difficulties in feeding its population and the imbalance in population distribution, with partic…
Fertility trends among overseas Indian populations
As there has been a long tradition of Indian emigration to overseas countries, a study of the fertility trends of Indian communities overseas can provide an interesting illustration of the adaptation of migrants' fertility behaviour to new economic and social conditions. In this paper, statistics relating to the fertility of a number of overseas Indian communities are brought together, and it is shown that during the 1950s and 1960s the fertility…
Links Between Urbanization and Sectoral Shifts in Employment in Java
The relationship between urbanization and changes in the employment structure in Indonesia is analyzed. In particular, the author examines whether changes in the occupational structure in rural areas can have any effect in slowing the general shift in economic emphasis to urban areas, whether nonagricultural economic activities can be developed in rural areas, and what policies are needed to assist the transformation of the rural employment secto…
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