New Data on Nuptiality and Fertility in China

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ID4120232
AuthorsJohn C Caldwell, Krishnan Srinivasan (0000-0002-0673-1643)
Year1984
Volume10
Issue1
Pages71
Publication date1984-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1973163
OpenAlexW2015896514
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited3

In September 1982, less than three months after the national census, the Chinese State Family Planning Commission conducted a large-scale fertility and family planning survey with a sampling fraction of one in a thousand, thus collecting at least some information on over one million persons. Some of the findings have been reported briefly in Chinese newspapers and more extensively in Beijing Review, a weekly magazine of current affairs and comment. However, the first comprehensive report on the methodology and findings is a publication, released in October 1983 and consisting of a preface, 27 papers, and four appendixes. ' The United Nations ESCAP Office (Bangkok) plans to publish some of the papers in English. The extensive statistical information contained in this book sheds important light on the current demographic situation and on recent demographic trends in China. This note discusses some of the salient findings. The sampling unit was the production brigade in the rural areas and the neighborhood residents' committee in the urban areas (which average about 1,500 population). Within each province these were randomly selected from urban and rural strata. The interviewing was undertaken by the family planning workers. Whereas the recent census collected information at central locations, in the survey a large number of households were actually visited by the interviewing teams. In the remainder at least one member of the household was interviewed at some meeting place other than the house. The survey population, when multiplied by one thousand (and with a correction for Tibet, which was not included in the sample), yields a figure of 1.020 billion persons compared with a census figure for the same Mainland population (i.e., subtracting Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao from the census total, which included estimates based on other counts for these areas) of 1.008 billion or, adding three months' natural increase, around 1.013 billion at the

Archaeology · China · Fertility · Geography · Population · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health

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