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Family Size, Ideal

Known as: Family Sizes, Ideal, Ideal Family Size, Ideal Family Sizes 
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2018
Review
2018
Child nutritional status among births exceeding ideal family size in a high fertility population
Ideal family size (IFS) is measured in social surveys to indicate unmet need for contraception and impending shifts in fertility… 
2013
2013
The Decline in Non-Numeric Ideal Family Size: A Cross-Regional Analysis
This paper examines women’s non-numeric responses to questions about ideal family size (IFS). Such responses have often been… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Ideal-family-size and sex-composition preferences among wives and husbands in Nepal.
This study tests the hypothesis that, in Nepal, measures of ideal family size mask an underlying preference for sons, making some… 
1990
1990
Son preference, fertility desire and contraceptive use in two largest cities of Pakistan.
  • M. Farooqui
  • Pakistan population review
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 33256343
The preference for sons in deeprooted in Pakistan and the growth rate is 3.1%/year, which has long term implications for the… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Evidence for and against the emergence of family size norms in Pakistan.
  • T. Pullum
  • Pakistan population review
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 43088576
Responses to questions on desired and ideal family size from the 1984-1985 Pakistan Contraceptive Prevalence Survey are… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
[Fertility of the Korean population in Japan].
  • Y. Kim
  • In'gu pogon nonjip = Journal of population and…
  • 1983
  • Corpus ID: 30134004
This paper focuses on the fertility estimates and a set of background information in the fertility survey of the Korean… 
1981
1981
Association of infant mortality and high fertility: an empirical investigation.
The relationship between fertility and infant mortality is interdependent. Reduction in infant mortality affects the reduction… 
1981
1981
Male concepts: on masculinity, parenthood and family planning.
  • A. Nolasco
  • Population forum : monthly newsletter of the…
  • 1981
  • Corpus ID: 42431881
A 1980 study on "Masculinity/Femininity Concepts and their Bearing on the Population Program" conducted by the Manila-based… 
1981
1981
The politics of fertility.
Because of the fertility decline in Western Europe during the 1960s and 1970s population forecasters lowered their projections… 
1980
1980
Religion, ideal family size, and abortion: extending Renzi's hypothesis.
Recent research has noted a negative relationship between ideal family size (IFS) and proabortion attitudes (AA) which is… 
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