East West Center Research Program Seminar

May 20, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Manoa Campus, East-West Center

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The Provincial Pattern of Fertility Decline in China

Jiajian Chen
Senior Fellow, East-West Center
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Noon – 1:00 pm
Burns Hall, Room 3012

Previous collaborative research between the East-West Center and China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that China’s fertility fell to below-replacement level in the late 1990s. So far, however, few studies have estimated fertility trends at the provincial level. Has fertility declined to low levels in all provinces, despite provincial differences in enforcement of the one-child policy and large disparities in level and pace of economic development? This presentation will provide new findings bearing on this question, based on the just-published joint report between the NBS and EWC on “Fertility Estimates for Provinces of China, 1975-2000”.

Jiajian Chen is a Senior Fellow of the Research Program at the East-West Center and an affiliate graduate faculty in the Population Studies Program at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Chen’s research activities include fertility and reproductive health, infant and child mortality, and integrated analysis and advocacy to improve HIV/AIDS responses.

Event Sponsor
EWC Research Program, Research Program

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Laura Moriyama, 944-7444, moriyaml@eastwestcenter.org

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