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The birth rate in Singapore
Singapore is well known as one of a small group of countries experiencing a substantial decline in recent birth rates. Writers have observed that this trend has occurred in association with other characteristics such as numerically small populations, areally small national units, insularity, a sizea...
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| description | Singapore is well known as one of a small group of countries experiencing a substantial decline in recent birth rates. Writers have observed that this trend has occurred in association with other characteristics such as numerically small populations, areally small national units, insularity, a sizeable Chinese (or non-indigenous Asian) component linked with the traditionally modest fertility levels of East Asian populations, and favourable economic development of socio-economic conditions.
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Within Singapore, monitoring of the official family planning programme has been carried out since its inception, and findings have been published at frequent intervals.
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In these reports such considerations as scale of response, characteristics of respondents and methods of contraception, have been examined and conclusions have been drawn about the impact of the programme and its success in reaching the target population. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major demographic variables accounting for the change in birth rates, to determine the relative importance of each and to ascertain whether they have operated in similar ways in the main ethnic groups in the population.
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Fundamental structural components of the female population are examined first in some detail. Because of the constraints of the data the association of certain social and economic characteristics relative to fertility levels are then discussed more briefly, and in the concluding section an attempt is made to assess the overall policy implications of these findings. |
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Within Singapore, monitoring of the official family planning programme has been carried out since its inception, and findings have been published at frequent intervals.
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In these reports such considerations as scale of response, characteristics of respondents and methods of contraception, have been examined and conclusions have been drawn about the impact of the programme and its success in reaching the target population. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major demographic variables accounting for the change in birth rates, to determine the relative importance of each and to ascertain whether they have operated in similar ways in the main ethnic groups in the population.
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In these reports such considerations as scale of response, characteristics of respondents and methods of contraception, have been examined and conclusions have been drawn about the impact of the programme and its success in reaching the target population. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major demographic variables accounting for the change in birth rates, to determine the relative importance of each and to ascertain whether they have operated in similar ways in the main ethnic groups in the population.
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Within Singapore, monitoring of the official family planning programme has been carried out since its inception, and findings have been published at frequent intervals.
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In these reports such considerations as scale of response, characteristics of respondents and methods of contraception, have been examined and conclusions have been drawn about the impact of the programme and its success in reaching the target population. The purpose of this paper is to examine the major demographic variables accounting for the change in birth rates, to determine the relative importance of each and to ascertain whether they have operated in similar ways in the main ethnic groups in the population.
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