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  • Title: A million-person population control survey.
    Author: Xiao Z, Zhao X.
    Journal: China Reconstr; 1983 Aug; 32(8):30-1. PubMed ID: 12265739.
    Abstract:
    A brief report on a sample survey that was carried out in China in late 1982 and that covered over one million people is presented. In the course of the survey, 310,462 women between the ages of 15 and 67 were questioned in person concerning age, marital status, children, occupation, education, birth control measures, abortion, whether they have only one child, and related topics. The survey, which took three months to complete, involved 3,676 investigators and is estimated by the authors to be the largest survey of this kind ever attempted. Sampling was done by strata, systems, and population clusters, and the error rate in recording data from questionnaires is estimated at about 1.07 per 1,000. The survey results indicate that although fertility has, until recently, declined substantially, China has not yet reached the level necessary for population control. In addition to an increase in the proportion of women of childbearing age, the survey indicates that approximately 21 million out of the 170 million eligible women have not yet adopted birth control measures. However, 33 million women have only one child, and 14 million have pledged not to have a second child.
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