Abstract
Demographers have proposed a long list of factors that help explain why population growth and fertility rates respond to rising levels of urbanization, economic growth and national development.2 Two of the many suggested influences will be investigated in the present paper with regard to urban Hong Kong.
This paper derives from research conducted by the Urban Family Life Survey, a series of studies sponsored by the Hong Kong Department of Social Welfare and the Hong Kong Council of Social Services under a grant from the official government lottery fund. Additional support for research concerning population and family planning issues was provided by a grant to the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong by the American Friends Service Committee. Other support was supplied the author for the preparation of the present paper by the Institute for International Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
This paper derives from research conducted by the Urban Family Life Survey, a series of studies sponsored by the Hong Kong Department of Social Welfare and the Hong Kong Council of Social Services under a grant from the official government lottery fund. Additional support for research concerning population and family planning issues was provided by a grant to the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong by the American Friends Service Committee. Other support was supplied the author for the preparation of the present paper by the Institute for International Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
Notes
This paper derives from research conducted by the Urban Family Life Survey, a series of studies sponsored by the Hong Kong Department of Social Welfare and the Hong Kong Council of Social Services under a grant from the official government lottery fund. Additional support for research concerning population and family planning issues was provided by a grant to the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong by the American Friends Service Committee. Other support was supplied the author for the preparation of the present paper by the Institute for International Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.