Rapid population change in China, 1952-1982 / Ansley J. Coale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coale, Ansley J.

Series:

Report (National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population and Demography) ; no. 27.

Report / Committee on Population and Demography ; no. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Population.

China.

China--Population--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 89 pages) : illustrations, charts

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1982 the People's Republic of China carried out a census with a more comprehensive interview schedule than ever before employed in China and using a very large, carefully chosen, and extensively trained field staff. The census was preceded by pilot surveys to test the instruments and field procedures. A tabulation of 10 percent of the individual returns has been completed, published in China and made available abroad in limited circulation. Also in 1982 a fertility survey covering a very large sample of households (total population of more than 1 million) was conducted in China, and its results have been published in great detail in a special issue of the Chinese journal Population and Economics. In addition, the distribution of the population by sex and single years of age as enumerated in the censuses of 1953 and 1964 has been recently released. This new information, supplemented by time series of registered births and deaths and end-of-year population totals extending back to the 1950s and by data from other large recent surveys, provides a sound basis for constructing an accurate and detailed history of the remarkable changes in fertility, mortality, and marriage that have occurred in China since the People's Republic was established.

Contents:

Rapid Population Change in China, 1952-1982

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Summary

Chapter 1 Introduction

SCOPE OF THE REPORT

BACKGROUND

Chapter 2 Sources and Quality of Data

DATA SOURCES

Census and Fertility Survey Data

Independence of the Data Sources

Characteristics of the 1982 Census and Fertility Survey

QUALITY OF DATA

Data By Single Years of Age

Abnormal Ratios of Men to Women in Census and Survey Data

Official Data on Births and Deaths

Data on Children and Marriage

Quality of Data: Summary

Chapter 3 Marriage in China Since 1950

PROPORTION EVER-MARRIED WOMEN AND THE FIRST-MARRIAGE RATE

MEAN AGE AT FIRST MARRIAGE

PATTERNS OF MARRIAGE

Chapter 4 Childbearing in China Since 1950

TOTAL FERTILITY RATES

THE EFFECT OF CHANGES IN NUPTIALITY ON THE RATE OF CHILDBEARING

AGE PATTERNS OF MARITAL FERTILITY

DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY

Urban/Rural Differences

Han and Minority Group Differences

Other Fertility Determinants

CONTRACEPTIVE PRACTICE IN CHINA

Chapter 5 Mortality in China

METHODS

LIFE TABLES

CRUDE DEATH RATES

VARIATION OVER TIME

Chapter 6 Conclusions

Notes

Appendix: Data Tables

References and Bibliography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography.

ISBN:

9786610222162

9781280222160

1280222166

9780309595469

0309595460

9780585148656

0585148651

OCLC:

70732941