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Demography (1966) 3 (2): 343–351.
Published: 01 June 1966
... of illiteracy. Based on this experience, the Central Family Planning Institute has initiated a large-scale communication action research project in Meerut district in North India where the impact of direct mailing on specific groups is being studied further. It is hoped that such studies would help...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 924–930.
Published: 01 June 1968
...Gary D. London 15 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1968 1968 Family Planning Community Action Economic Opportunity Family Planning Service Family Planning Program FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMS OF THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: SCOPE, OPERATION, AND IMPACT GARY D...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1487–1506.
Published: 25 June 2018
...Amy Hsin; Francesc Ortega Abstract Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration policy to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation as well as renewable work permits...
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Demography (1968) 5 (1): 158–173.
Published: 01 March 1968
... for states to formulate their own population policies. These events indicate that the Soviet Union is in the process of evolving a new policy in the population field. Their actions to date, however, have been cautious; but then it is not in the nature of governments to make radical shifts in policy...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 827–835.
Published: 01 June 1968
.... . Lectures or courses in health centers .. Company where she works . Relative (brother, cousin, aunt, or niece) . Religious persons or institutions . Community action . Other . No answer . TOTAL .. 39.0 17.7 14.1 9.6 6.7 4.9 4.1 0.5 0.3 2.6 0.5 100.0 Percent Total rejection...
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 403–418.
Published: 01 August 1986
... Community Action Program required local groups to apply for support, with documentation. Likewise, groups had to prove that they had been discriminated against in order to qualify for federal help under the Voting Rights Act (Thernstrom 1983). To receive help in the form of an affirmative action plan from...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 910–923.
Published: 01 June 1968
... effort. Federal support for family planning services is now channeled mainly through the Maternal and Child Health programs of DHEW and through the Community Action Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity. In the Maternal and Child 26 O. Harkavy, F. S. Jaffe and S. Wishik, Im- plementing DHEW...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 960–972.
Published: 01 June 1968
... percent of those who knew how to use one had ac- tually used it. The cumulative effect of the process was that only 43 percent of those who had heard of at least one method had used one. The Taichung action program had a heavy impact on the adoption process patterns; and there was in fact a measur- able...
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Demography (1964) 1 (1): 94–105.
Published: 01 March 1964
...; occasional ineffectiveness of the simpler (hence more usable) contraceptive meth- ods that discourages at the outset; lack of trained personnel for action programs; On Family Planning Communication 95 little differential fertility as a lever to start with, that is, few small-family mod- els; lack...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 397–414.
Published: 01 March 1967
...: The Chicago Fertility Control Studies." It describes the experimental action program and study undertaken by the Community and Family Study Center of the University of Chicago, in co-operation with the Planned Parenthood Association of Chi- cago. Professor Bogue, who directed the experimental action program...
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Demography (1993) 30 (4): 519–521.
Published: 01 November 1993
...Donald J. Bogue 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Population Association Ford Foundation Editorial Team Population Problem Family Planning Action This paper is reprinted from PAA Affairs , Fall, 1983. Bogue was the journal’s first editor. While...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 651–658.
Published: 01 June 1968
... to get into the action field by the Asian Population Conference of 1963, which requested the Executive Secretary to expand "the scope of technical assist- ance available to governments in the region, upon their request, for data col- lection, research, experimentation, and action on all aspects...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 245–270.
Published: 01 May 2008
... examine changes in transition probabilities for different in- come groups. In order to examine the possibility of the creamy layer of dalit and adivasi community appropriating the bene ts of af rmative action, we explore the differences in the predicted probabilities at different per capita household...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 836–845.
Published: 01 June 1968
..., AND ONOFRE AVENDANOt Since early 1965, a research and action family planning program has been going on at San Gregorio-a marginal working class community in Santiago, Chile-with the main purpose of evaluating the effec- tiveness of family planning for reducing induced abortion, fertility, and maternal...
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1093–1095.
Published: 25 April 2013
... at the Border (EMIF), and other smaller studies. Although they cannot provide information on the total number of migrants or representative portraits of their characteristics, these surveys yield important insights into the motivations, actions, and processes underlying the larger patterns. At this juncture...
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Demography (2019) 56 (1): 75–102.
Published: 04 January 2019
... successfully in other research. These researchers argued that for people to undertake new action, they must be both ready and able to undertake that action. 1 By readiness , Lesthaeghe and Vanderhoeft, meant that in order for people to undertake an action, they must see it as advantageous...
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Demography (1968) 5 (2): 973–1001.
Published: 01 June 1968
... . Meier, Gitta. “Research and Action Programs in Human Fertility Control: A Review of the Literature,” Social Work, XI, 3 (July, 1966). M. , Muramatsu , & P.A. , Harper ( 1965 ). Population Dynamics, International Action and Training Programs . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 3–25.
Published: 12 December 2013
... dimension (observable practices or objects in the world). In this essay, I focus on the cognitive dimension of culture: the shared meanings given to objects and actions in the world. Both dimensions are necessary to culture, but, again, meaning is fundamental: worldly objects are of interest to cultural...
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Demography (2017) 54 (6): 2223–2247.
Published: 03 November 2017
... been eligible for Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) will be eligible to vote by 2020 (Pastor et al. 2015 ). 3 Although political participation can take various forms, such as participating in registration drives or voting rallies, the most important...
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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1431–1457.
Published: 01 August 2022
... ). Muslim communities in contemporary China: The resurgence of Islam after the Cultural Revolution . Journal of Islamic Studies , 5 , 70 – 101 . Francis A. M. , & Tannuri-Pianto M. ( 2013 ). Endogenous race in Brazil: Affirmative action and the construction of racial identity among...
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