This paper is an attempt at analysing female labour force participation and its various socio-economic and demographic correlates in Pakistan. Data for the four provinces have been analysed separately in order to get an idea of the diversity between regions and to identify characteristics that...

The Pakistan population planning programme, in its effort to recruit family planning adopters in order to lower birth rates, has used a broad range of communication media to convey its messages. Mass media like radio. television and cinema have carried the message and field workers have been...

The study of trends and structure of female labour force participation in -developing countries has attracted considerable attention over the past few ,years. Several international comparisons based on religious as well as sociocultural and demographic differentials have been made. See, for...

Female labour force participation as a factor affecting fertility has recently attracted considerable attention in both. developing and developed societies. It has been theorized that female work wouH-have a depressing effect on fertility because of the high opportunity cost involved in high...

Of the several approaches designed to study the adoption of family planning methods one approach emphasizes the dynamics related to the husbandwife dyad,' especially communication and interaction between the spouses as related to family planning behaviour. Interspousal communication has been...

The aim of this paper was to investigate whether socioeconomic factors such as parent's education, occupation, and income constitute risk factors in perinatal mortality after controlling for biological variables such as birth weight and length of gestation, and maternal factors such as age,...

Utilization of the emergency rooms (ERs) in Kuwait has increased considerably during the last decade. Such an increase is a concern for health planners because of the burden on ER services, lack of continuous service provided by the ER and the higher cost of such services. Based on a study of...

Based on a nationally representive household survey of Kuwaiti women held in 1999 (n=1502) unmet need for contraception was analyzed in Kuwait, an oil-rich Muslim country. It was found that 9.7% currently married women had an unmet need for contraception. Of those, 6.1% wanted to stop child...

The Arab, Muslim, oil-rich nation of Kuwait has achieved unusually high levels of knowledge and use of contraception for a developing, high fertility country. Almost all women know of contraceptive pills without prompting, and 57-86% report having ever used a method (usually the oral pill or...