Leela Visaria

Biographic Data

ID1076474
NAMELeela Visaria
GIVEN NAMESLeela
FAMILY NAMEVisaria
SIGNATUREVISARIA L
AFFILIATIONSGujarat Institute of Development Research
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • The Asian Population Association

    Leela Visaria, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi‐shavaziARTICLEAsian Population Studies2009

    With almost four billion people, Asia is home to more than 60 per cent of the world's current population, and encompasses great diversity in terms of the size of its nations, its religions, languag

  • Twenty-First-Century India

    Lucian W Pye, Tim Dyson et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 3

    1. Overview DEMOGRAPHY 2. India's Population: The Past 3. Mortality Trends and the Health Transition 4. The Continuing Fertility Transition 5. India's Population: The Future 6. Migration and Urbanization: Retrospect and Prospects SOCIAL SECTORS AND THE ECONOMY 7. Education and Literacy 8. Employment 9. The Condition of the People 10. The Economy, the Past, and the Future POPULATION, FOOD, AND ENVIRONMENT 11. Prospects for Food Demand and Supply 1…

  • Twenty-First Century India

    Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen et al.BOOKTwenty-first century India2004

    Twenty-First Century India is the first study of India’s development giving a fully integrated account of population and development. It is built on new projections of the population for fifty years from the Census of 2001. India’s population then had already passed 1 billion. Twenty-five years later it will exceed 1.4 billion, and will almost certainly pass 1.5 billion by mid-century. The projections incorporate for the first time both inter-sta…

  • Estimates of Contraceptive Prevalence Based on Service Statistics and Surveys in Gujarat State, India

    Leela Visaria, Pravin Visaria et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1994Cited by: 2

    This report demonstrates that the estimates of contraceptive prevalence based on surveys are substantially lower than those based on the service statistics generated by the Indian family planning program. The reasons for this discrepancy were examined by contacting a subsample of acceptors recorded by female health workers as users in their registers. This inquiry indicated that the health workers themselves knew that 15-39 percent of the women w…

  • India's Historical Demography

    Leela VisariaARTICLEPopulation Studies1992

  • Prospective Changes in the age and Gender Structure of India’s Population and their Socio-economic Implications

    Open AccessLeela Visaria, Pravin VisariaARTICLESociological Bulletin1986

    This paper attempts to review briefly the past and the prospective changes in the sex-age composition of the population of India and to speculate about their socio-economic implications. The basic data are drawn from the decennial censuses and the Sample Registration System; but the discussion extends beyond them