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JANUARY-JUNE 1996 - VOLUME 34, NUMBER 1-2
97.03.1 - Serbo-Croat - Mirjana RASEVIC
Family planning programmes in Muslim countries: Two success stories (Programi za planiranje porodice u muslimanskim zemljama: Uspesni primeri) (p. 9-22)
Amongst the ten or so countries where the results of family planning programmes have been the most spectacular, Tunisia and Indonesia are the only Muslim countries which have managed to obtain a degree of success with family planning. The Muslim culture gives rise to particular interest when studying this issue as it can be characterized by its generally resistant, or at least reticent, attitude towards change, within the domain of fertility also, and even at an advanced stage in its development. The author examines these two cases in the hope of drawing benefit from their experiences for formulating future population policies which is one of the medium-term projects in the provinces of Kosovo and Metohija. (TUNISIA, INDONESIA, YUGOSLAVIA, FAMILY PLANNING PROGRAMMES, ISLAM)
97.03.2 - Serbo-Croat - Mirjana BOBIC
Family and households in the census of Brankovica region in 1455 (Proucavanje porodice i domacinstva na osnovu popisa Oblasti Brankovica iz 1455) (p. 23-47)
Three fiscal censuses ("defter") of the Serbian populations which were undertaken shortly after the Turkish conquest have been conservated. The census of the Brankovica region, which dates back to 1455, covers the majority of the current Kosova region and some areas of Metohija. The "defter" is a fiscal register where all resources of a household and of communities are described within the framework of the feudal domains. The author attempts to examine the exact meaning of the term "house" which , frequently used in the register, corresponds to the idea of a domestic group or family. Since this was a census of tax-paying household heads, a demographic model needs to be used in order to evaluate the household and family size. It is known that the Serbian family of the Middle Ages was quite small (an average of five people), but was included within a "family group" which could be quite large. The author specifies the differences which exist between the demographic concept of household or family and the fiscal concept of house / hearth, when examining the way in which the register is presented. (YUGOSLAVIA, HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY, POPULATION CENSUS, HOUSEHOLD, FAMILY, HEARTH)
97.03.3 - Serbo-Croat - Vladimir STANKOVIC
Social auto-reproduction of the economically active population in the agricultural sector in Central Serbia and Voivodina as per the 1991 census (Socioprofesionalno samoobnavljanje aktivnog poljoprivrednog stanovnistva centralne Srbije i Vojvodine prema podacima popisa stanovnistva 1991) (p. 51-71)
Amongst the major structural transformations which affected Yugoslavia between 1960 and 1991, there has been a strong decline in the inter-generational social auto-reproduction of the economically active population in the agricultural sector, closely linked with the accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization. In 1960, almost two-thirds of Yugoslav farmers had taken over from their ancestors. In 1991, only 50% of farmers in Central Serbia and one-third in Voivodina, were to be found in the same socio-occupational category as their parents. It is the older and less well educated sector of the farming population which, in general, assumes the social reproduction of this group. The 1991 census highlights the intensity of social mobility of people of farming origin, mainly towards the mining and industrial sectors (24.9% in Central Serbia and 29.5% in Voivodina) and towards the liberal and artistic professions (6.2% and 7.8%). The result is, on the one hand, that the farming community, generally speaking and, more specifically, the agricultural manpower, is becoming more female-dominated and is ageing while, on the other hand, there is a distinct increase in the non-farming sectors. (YUGOSLAVIA, AGRICULTURAL POPULATION, INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY)
97.03.4 - Serbo-Croat - Jelena PREDOJEVIC
Fertility in Belgrade (Fertilitet stanovnistva grada Beograda) (p. 73-88)
The author studies various aspects of fertility in Belgrade, using data from censuses and civil statistics since the Second World War. The number of live births increased regularly up until 1988 before declining strongly. The natural growth in Belgrade was negative for the first ever time in 1992. But the city's population continued to increase due to a significant level of net immigration. For the past fifteen or so years, the birth birth rates have begun to veer towards lower figures in all communities of the metropolitan area. The age structure of the female population aged 15-49 is quite favourable, but the age-specific fertility rates are lower in Belgrade than anywhere else in Yugoslavia. In 1991, there was no community in the metropolitan area where the total fertility rate was higher than two children per woman. The births of rank 3 or over have become more and more rare while the intervals between births have grown longer. For the past half century, fertility in Belgrade has been undergoing a similar transformation to the other main cities of Western Europe. (YUGOSLAVIA, CAPITAL CITY, FERTILITY DECLINE)
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