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Title

• How Americans view world population issues : a survey of public opinion / David M. Adamson ... [et al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Adamson, David M.
• Population Matters (Project)
• Rand Corporation

Description

xxv, 123 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This report presents results of a national survey of how Americans view global demographic trends and issues in the context of U.S. international economic assistance. The survey asked about three groups of topics: attitudes about U.S. economic assistance overseas and priorities for targeting U.S. aid; knowledge and views of global demographic facts and trends; and views on specific issues, including family planning programs, abortion, and congressional actions on population-policy measures. The survey found that, notwithstanding a perception that Americans have become more absorbed with domestic problems since the end of the Cold War, a majority feels that U.S. economic assistance to other countries is necessary and appropriate. Most Americans lack knowledge about the world's population size and growth rate but are nonetheless concerned about global population growth and its possible consequences. Support for U.S. funding of voluntary family planning activities, both overseas and domestically, is strong. The legal right to abortion, however, remains a contentious issue that divides the American public.

Subject

• Birth control > Public opinion
• Demography > Public opinion
• Economic assistance, American > Public opinion
• Population > Public opinion
• Population Growth
• Population assistance, American > Public opinion
• Public opinion > United States

Note

• "Supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Methodology -- Ch. 3. Public Attitudes Toward U.S. International Economic Assistance -- Ch. 4. Americans' Knowledge and Views of World Demographic Trends -- Ch. 5. Specific Population Issues -- Ch. 6. Conclusions and Implications -- App. C. Description of the 11 Factors and Results of Regression Analysis -- App. D. Data from Respondents with Various Views on Abortion and Family Planning.

ISBN

0833028235

LCCN

^^^00025642^

OCLC

43540422

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library