Knodel J, Pitaktepsombati P
Stud Fam Plann. 1975 Nov;6(11):402-13.
The Longitudinal Study of Social, Economic, and Demographic Change was undertaken during the late 1960s to provide detailed national information on behavior and attitudes related to fertility and family planning in Thailand. Results from the second round of the study indicate that the practice of family planning increased substantially in both rural and urban areas during the three-year interval between the two rounds. During this period, marital fertility registered a decline in the urban areas. This was a result of a small rise in fertility among Bangkok-Thonburi women combined with a sharp decline in fertility among provincial urban women. Because the National Family Planning Program was officially begun at the time of the first round, its role in the increase in contraceptive use is examined. Although the study shows that the desired number of children is substantially below the actual number of children Thai womenhave by the end of their reproductive years, the desired number of children is still well above the number usually considered ideal in developed countries. Nonetheless, changes in reproductive behavior appear to reflect the impact of modernization on Thai society. In urban areas, marital fertility is only moderately high and a substantial proportion of couples practice family planning. Of particular importance over the remainder of the decade will be the reproductive behavior of rural women, who constitute an extremely high proportion of the Thai female population.
社会、经济和人口变化纵向研究于20世纪60年代末开展，旨在提供泰国有关生育和计划生育的行为及态度的详细全国性信息。第二轮研究结果表明，在两轮研究间隔的三年时间里，农村和城市地区的计划生育实施情况都有显著增加。在此期间，城市地区的婚内生育率有所下降。这是曼谷-吞武里妇女的生育率略有上升，以及省级城市妇女的生育率急剧下降共同作用的结果。由于国家计划生育项目在第一轮研究时正式启动，因此对其在避孕药具使用增加方面所起的作用进行了研究。尽管研究表明，泰国妇女在生育年龄结束时期望生育的子女数量大大低于实际生育数量，但期望生育的子女数量仍远高于发达国家通常认为的理想数量。尽管如此，生殖行为的变化似乎反映了现代化对泰国社会的影响。在城市地区，婚内生育率仅处于中等水平，相当一部分夫妇实行计划生育。在这十年的剩余时间里，农村妇女的生殖行为将尤为重要，因为她们在泰国女性人口中占比极高。
