| Item type |
Conference or Workshop Item |
| Subjects |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
| Division/Agency |
LPPKN - National Population and Family Development Board, Malaysia: Population and Family Research Division |
| Keywords |
Contraceptive prevalence rate, Contraceptive users, Unmeet need, MPFS |
| Additional Information |
National Population and Family Development Board in collaboration with Population Studies Unit, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. |
| Abstract |
In 1957-1966, Family Planning Association has pioneering the family planning services in most of the states of Malaysia. At that time, the family planning services were mostly available only in urban areas (NPFDB: Kuala Lumpur, Report on Malaysian Population and Family Survey, 1974). Family planning was first made as an official policy during the First Malaysia Plan in 1966, successfully through the National Planning Programme (NPP). The objectives of this study is to examine the fertility levels of respondents whose practiced family planning compared to that of who have never practiced it and this study also to study the link between socio-economic and cultural variables with those eight intermediate variables on fertility in Malaysia. |
