How Americans view world population issues : a survey of public opinion / David M. Adamson ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adamson, David M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population assistance, American--Public opinion.

Population assistance, American.

Economic assistance, American--Public opinion.

Economic assistance, American.

Birth control--Public opinion.

Birth control.

Demography--Public opinion.

Demography.

Population--Public opinion.

Population.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This survey defies the idea that Americans have lost interest in foreign affairs. It reveals that support for international economic assistance is at its highest since the 1970s and that the majority of Americans favour US funding for family planning programmes at home and in developing countries.

Contents:

""PREFACE""; ""FIGURES""; ""TABLES""; ""SUMMARY""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""MAJOR FINDINGS""; ""U.S. Economic Assistance Overseas""; ""Public Knowledge and Attitudes About Global Demographic Trends""; ""Specific Issues""; ""Congressional Actions""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH COMMUNICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""ACRONYMS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PURPOSE AND MOTIVATION FOR THE SURVEY""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT""; ""METHODOLOGY""; ""SAMPLE""; ""PRESENTATION OF THE DATA""; ""FACTOR AND REGRESSION ANALYSES""; ""PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD U.S. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE""

""AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR U.S. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE""""TRENDS IN SUPPORT FOR ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE""; ""VALUE OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO THE UNITED STATES""; ""PRIORITIZING GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE""; ""Three Types of Goals""; ""VIEWS ON FUNDING PARTICULAR HEALTH AND HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMS""; ""AMERICANS KNOWLEDGE AND VIEWS OF WORLD DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS""; ""KNOWLEDGE OF DEMOGRAPHIC FACTS AND TRENDS""; ""VIEWS OF POPULATION GROWTH RATES""; ""HOW SERIOUS A PROBLEM IS POPULATION GROWTH?""; ""IMPACTS OF RAPID POPULATION GROWTH""

""LOW FERTILITY IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES""""SPECIFIC POPULATION ISSUES""; ""THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND ACHIEVE DESIRED FAMILY SIZE""; ""BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES ABOUT FAMILY PLANNING""; ""Meaning of the Terms Birth Control and Family Planning""; ""Do Birth Control and Family Planning Include Abortion?""; ""Perceptions About Availability of Family Planning""; ""Should Family Planning Be Provided by the Government and Covered by Health Insurance?""; ""Support for U.S. Funding of International Family Planning Programs""; ""ABORTION""

""Attitudes About Abortion in the United States""""Support for U.S. Funding of Abortions in Developing Countries""; ""Perceptions of Impacts of Abortion""; ""Correlates of Abortion""; ""RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY PLANNING AND ABORTION""; ""VIEWS ON CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS REGARDING POPULATION- RELATED FUNDING""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS""; ""INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE AND RECENT CONGRESSIONAL ACTIONS""; ""SPECIFIC POPULATION ISSUES Knowledge and Attitudes About Global Population Trends""; ""Family Planning""; ""Abortion""; ""Relationship Between Family Planning and Abortion""

""IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATING POPULATION RESEARCH""""QUESTIONNAIRE WITH RESPONSE TOTALS""; ""QUESTIONNAIRE""; ""METHODOLOGY FOR THE SURVEY AND THE ANALYSIS""; ""SAMPLE""; ""SAMPLING ERROR""; ""QUESTIONNAIRE AND INTERVIEWING""; ""FACTOR AND REGRESSION ANALYSES Factor Analysis""; ""Multiple Regression""; ""DESCRIPTION OF THE 11 FACTORS AND RESULTS OF REGRESSION ANALYSIS""; ""FACTOR 1A: HUMANITARIAN GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE Questions defining this factor:""; ""FACTOR 1B: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS GOALS FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE Questions defining this factor:""

""FACTOR 2: TARGETS OF AID Questions defining this factor:""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).

ISBN:

0-8330-4388-9

OCLC:

70721535