Why Thai fertility has fallen : are there lessons for other countries?


 

Publication Date: January 1988

Publisher: East-West Center

Author(s): Bryant Robey

Research Area: Population and demographics

Type: Brief

Coverage: Thailand

Abstract:

The authors of a study conclude: "It is the interaction between socioeconomic change and an organized program, both operating within a cultural setting conducive to reproductive change in which a latent demand for birth control already existed, that resulted in the rapid and extensive decline of fertility [in Thailand.]"