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Population Studies
A Journal of Demography
Volume 25, 1971 - Issue 3
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Changes in fertility rates and family size in response to changes in age at marriage, the trend away from arranged marriages, and increasing urbanization

Pages 481-489 | Published online: 09 Nov 2011
 

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.

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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.

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