Rapid Fertility Changes in Bangladesh: An Economic and Ethnographic Study

孟加拉国生育率的快速变化：一项经济和人种学研究

• 批准号: 9720712
• 负责人: Patricia Johnson
• 金额: $ 9.62万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-02-01 至 2000-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9720712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rapid; Fertility; Changes; Bangladesh; Economic

This project studies the rapid change in fertility that has occurred in Bangladesh over the past 20 years. The standard demographic theory of population decline says that people have fewer children when their economic situation improves. In this case the economic situation has not improved, yet the population has limited growth through the increasing use of contraceptives. This project will test hypotheses to explain variation in contraceptive use among rural, underprivileged people near Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. The project will develop an instrument for assessing economic well-being that is more sensitive to local understandings of poverty and wealth. Focusing on contrasts between couples who use contraceptives and those who do not, the project will employ a mix of qualitative ethnographic methods and quantitative data to provide a picture of local reproductive choice. On the theoretical level, it will be a model to advance the combination of ethnography and local contextual knowledge with extensive, statistically representative survey-based knowledge. On a practical level, it will provide useful information to family planning policy development in Bangladesh, the world's most densely populated country. The new knowledge from this project should be significant in light of the continuing global problem of overpopulation.

该项目研究孟加拉国过去20年来生育率的迅速变化。 人口下降的标准人口统计学理论认为，当人们的经济状况改善时，他们的孩子会减少。在这种情况下，经济状况没有改善，但由于避孕药具的使用增加，人口增长受到限制。该项目将检验各种假设，以解释孟加拉国首都达卡附近农村贫困人口使用避孕药具的差异。 该项目将开发一种评估经济福祉的工具，这种工具对当地对贫穷和财富的理解更加敏感。 该项目将重点放在使用避孕药具的夫妇和不使用避孕药具的夫妇之间的对比上，将采用定性人种学方法和定量数据相结合的方法，以提供当地生殖选择的情况。在理论层面上，这将是一个模式，以促进民族志和当地的背景知识与广泛的，统计上有代表性的调查为基础的知识相结合。 在实际层面上，它将为世界上人口最稠密的国家孟加拉国的计划生育政策发展提供有用的信息。 鉴于全球人口过剩问题持续存在，该项目的新知识应具有重要意义。