Family growth and family planning
Responses to a family-planning action program in a rural district of Thailand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10968633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amos H Hawley (corresponding author), Visid Prachuabmoh |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 319-331 |
| Publication date | 1966-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2060161 |
| PMID | 21318706 |
| OpenAlex | W1972712231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
A resurvey of a rural district in Thailand, of about 70,000 population, was conducted after a family-planning program had been in operation for eight months in order to ascertain indications of effectiveness of the program. Both the “before” and “after” surveys employed a 25 percent simple random, though non-overlapping, sample of married women 20–44 years of age whose husbands were living. The only difference in design and execution was the inclusion in the resurvey of questions about the action program. Barring one or two exceptions, the characteristics of the two population samples were so similar that differences in knowledge, attitudes, and practices could be regarded as effects of the program. The action program not only made itself widely known in the district, it also evoked a highly favorable appraisal, to such an extent that nine of every ten women thought the program should be extended over the entire kingdom. Motivation to engage in family planning increased perceptibly. A substantial proportion (23 percent) of the women who formerly disapproved of the practice changed their attitudes to approval, mainly because they had become convinced of the harmlessness and the utility of fertility control. Less than 3 percent of the former approvers had become negative. The proportion of women who claimed some kind of knowledge about contraceptive methods more than doubled during the eight months of the program's operation. More impressive, however, was the change in actual use of methods, which rose from 1 to 21 percent of the eligible women (women who were not pregnant, subfecund, or sterilized). Another 16 percent, in the resurvey, planned to begin use of contraceptives in the near future, in most instances after a current pregnancy. The frequency of acceptance of family planning practice exceeded the expected frequency among women who were approaching or had attained the “ideal” number of children (4.0 children). High-parity women 40 or more years of age seldom accepted clinical assistance
Birth control · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Inclusion (mineral · Population · Population control · Research methodology · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 1993 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |