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T H Sun

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PubMed1979

Do intentions predict fertility? The experience in Taiwan, 1967-74.

Are responses to survey questions about desire for additional children useful in predicting future fertility? Data from Taiwan covering the years 1967--74, a period of rapid fertility decline and increasing contraceptive practice, indicate that reproductive intentions and contraceptive use were very good predictors of subsequent fertility. Whether more children were wanted was itself the most important determinant of contraceptive use. Aggregate consistency between attitudes and behavior was higher than found in US surveys during the same period. Similar studies are needed to determine whether statements of intentions have predictive value in other settings as well.

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PubMed1978

Trends in fertility, family size preferences, and family planning practice: Taiwan, 1961-76.

A series of six sample surveys and vital statistics are used to analyze major reproductive trends for 1961-76 in Taiwan. Fertility fell rapidly during 1961-70 as a result of adoption of contraception and rising age at marriage, while there was little change in preferred family size. Between 1970 and 1976 the practice of contraception reached high levels in all social strata, and preferred family size and fertility both declined rapidly. Practice of contraception for spacing births increased considerably after 1970. These changes occurred while many traditional familial values, including strong son preference, persisted. A continuation of the decline in fertility is predicted.

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Implications for adolescent sex education in Taiwan.

This first Taiwan-wide sample survey of adolescent sexual awareness, knowledge, attitude, and behavior shows that secondary school students there: lack basic knowledge about contraception and reproduction, are often not being taught adequately about these subjects in school, have fairly permissive attitudes about sexual relationships, particularly males, are sexually active, particularly males and those in the private vocational high schools (although less so than their US counterparts), want to learn more about the nature of intimate relationships between males and females, and look to school and public health agencies to be more active sources of information and education.

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Taiwan's transition from high fertility to below-replacement levels.

This article compares the fertility experience of Taiwanese in the eight years since the total fertility rate reached 2.1 with that before fertility reached replacement levels. During the earlier period, two-thirds of the fertility decline resulted from falling marital fertility and one-third from higher age at marriage. The changing age distribution retarded this decline. Since 1983, the further decline to 1.7-1.8 has been entirely the result of the trend toward later marriage. Older age distributions now facilitate the decline. Births postponed by those marrying later make the conventional TFR misleading. Computation based on parity-progression ratios raise TFRs from 1.7 to 2.0, a number less alarming to policymakers. Contraceptive prevalence is at saturation levels in all major populations strata. The "KAP-GAP" has disappeared. What would have happened without Taiwan's effective family planning program is impossible to determine, but clearly, contraceptive services supplied by the program were the major proximate cause of Taiwan's fertility decline.

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