Discusses: (1) a comparative study on managing population education programs; (2) a South Pacific workshop in which training materials on sex education, family life education, and nutrition-oriented mixed gardening were developed; and (3) a workshop on evaluative research, the focus of national population education programs in Asia. (JN)

Discusses population education programs in China, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Sri Lanka is developing audio-visual materials and integrating population education into secondary science and social studies curricula. Nepal is transmitting nonformal population education messages to adults through…

Outlines the history of contraception, tracing the development of contraceptive methods from those used in primitive societies to the most recent techniques made available by medical science. Also describes the activities of the pioneers who have popularized birth control. (JR)

The data provides little evidence to support the thesis that the fertility levels of the Anglo and Mexican American populations have substantially converged during the last two decades. (Author)

Describes the population trends in the U.S. and the effects of these trends on public education, and offers some hope for the future. (AN)

Population models, both flat and vertical, make excellent group activities. Methods of instruction are detailed with examples. Models may be used to make transformations to demographic base maps upon which other population characteristics may be shown. (NH)

Discussed is how ratios can be used by history teachers at the secondary and college levels to convert population statistics to equivalent and comparable values in helping students better understand the historical and contemporary implications of what is being studied. (RM)

The thesis of this article is that evaluation research on the effects of population education to date has been stalled by confusion manifested in the population education literature. This confusion is evident in two areas: (1) what population education is and (2) what it is supposed to do. (RE)

Urges that college level geography students will develop greater appreciation of population projections when they are directly and systematically involved in making and using them. An exercise is described in which students are directed to make several population projections, compare their projections with published projections, and explain…

A woman's social and physical surroundings are important determinants of her health. Women's health is subject to different stresses than mens, but these stresses are by no means the same from culture to culture. Mortality rates among women reflects these varying stresses.

Investigated is the idea that measures of preferred family size can elicit accurate aggregate fertility predictions but inaccurate individual fertility predictions, because the children's sex composition is not considered. Suggestions are given for developing fertility attitude measures. (Author/SA)

Examines the content of the World Programme of Action (WPOA) for its tone, core tenets, and other issues it addresses. Reviews the negotiations and politics that led to acceptance of the WPOA at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. (LZ)

This article looks into the reasons behind Kenya's rapidly declining fertility rates over the last decade. Examines such factors as economic conditions, Westernization, contraceptive use, and formal education programs. (LZ)

Although the decennial census provides poverty figures for states and other subnational geographic units, their utility declines over the course of a decade, causing interest in producing postcensus estimates for a variety of indicators. This study extends recent efforts to estimate postcensus poverty figures for states using multiple regression…