Behind the Numbers: The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
The PRB blog on population, health, and the environment
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Author ArchiveQuick Takes: Natural Decrease in Russia, Indian Weddings, Taiwan TFR, and Canadian CensusWednesday, February 15th, 2012 Posted in Marriage/Family, Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior demographer Natural decrease improves in Russia. Russia continued its recovery in 2011 from its dramatic natural decrease (births minus deaths) of past years, but not from a ... Read more..Cameroon 2011 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Stalled Fertility Decline, Improving Health IndicatorsMonday, December 12th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health by Carl Haub, senior demographer The Cameroon 2011 Demographic and Health Survey – Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey is the fourth DHS in a series that began in 1991. As so often ... Read more..Quick Takes: DR Congo Fertility, More on Names in India, Family Planning in Africa, and Serbian Census ResultsThursday, November 17th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics, Reproductive Health by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Fertility in Democratic Republic of Congo. The 2010 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now available and reports ... Read more..India: What’s in a Name?Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Many geographic names have changed in India since independence in 1947. For example, major streets were renamed. Queen’s Road in Delhi became Janpath (People’s ... Read more..Senegal 2010-2011 Demographic and Health Survey ResultsThursday, October 20th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The 2010-2011 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) interviewed 15,688 women and 4,929 men ages 15 to 49. The total fertility rate (TFR -- the average ... Read more..Quick Takes: India’s “Demographic Dividend” and Incentives to Lower Birth Rates, China’s One-Child Policy, More Births in TaiwanTuesday, October 18th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar Getting It Right. An Oct. 15 article in The Washington Post focuses on the concept of the demographic dividend, which has become quite popular among ... Read more..Malawi 2010 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Great Strides in Maternal and Child Health, Slow Fertility DeclineThursday, October 13th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The Malawi 2010 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is the latest in a regular series of DHS surveys that began in 1992. The survey interviewed ... Read more..Rwanda’s 2010 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Remarkable Drop in Fertility and Child MortalityFriday, October 7th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The Rwanda 2010 DHS is the latest in a regular series of DHS surveys that began in 1992, although hostilities had delayed the next survey ... Read more..Quick Takes: Vietnam Fertility Below Replacement Level; Reversal in Poland’s and Russia’s Birth RateThursday, October 6th, 2011 Posted in Population Basics by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar With this post, I'm starting a new practice of listing a variety of items of interest as they're received. Perhaps not enough for a full ... Read more..Zimbabwe’s 2010-2011 Demographic and Health Survey Shows Fertility Increase, Stagnant Progress on HealthThursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Health, Population Basics, Reproductive Health by Carl Haub, senior visiting scholar The new Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in Zimbabwe presents evidence that the country's progress on reproductive and maternal and child health has stagnated ... Read more.. |
