ABSTRACT
Reprinted with permission from Family Planning Perspectives 4, no. 4 (October 1972): 9-18. John F. Kantner and Melvin Zelnik are Professors of Population Dynamics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Zelnik has been a Ford Foundation population consultant in Indonesia. The two have coauthored several other reports based on the survey dealt with in this selection—a survey supported by the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
