# DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 1993 · $444,196

## Abstract

The proposed project is a continuation and expansion of our earlier
project, "Contraceptive Choice in a Changing Environment."  Its overall
goal is an improved understanding of demographic responses to dramatic
social change.  Nang Rong district, Thailand is an ideal natural
laboratory to examine the demographic responses triggered by the social
changes underway in many societies.

Building on data assembled for 1984 and 1988 (that are the focus of
analysis in the earlier project), we propose an additional round of data
collection in 1994 in the villages surveyed in 1984 and 1988 and a
follow-up of migrants to Buriram (a county seat), Nakornratchisima (a
regional city), and Bangkok (the national capital).  The resulting data
set will include three waves of observation (1984, 1988, 1994), multiple
levels of observation (individuals, co-resident families, households,
communities), tracking of migrants to three principal destinations, and
retrospective event history data for migrants and non-migrants.  Building
upon our earlier work, social network data will incorporated at the
community, household and individual level.

Using these data, we propose to analyze two possible responses to social
and economic change:  contraceptive choice and out-migration and delayed
parenthood.  The proposed analyses will be multilevel in thrust, focus
on change at the individual, household, and community levels, and take
account of unobserved heterogeneity at each of these levels and the
nature of networks within which social behavior occurs.  In addition to
these multivariate analyses, we will begin with methodological and
descriptive analyses, particularly (a) the order, diversity and crispness
of life course transitions and (b) the inter-village, inter-household,
and interpersonal networks in Nang Rong district.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 2199598
- **Project number:** 2R01HD025482-03A2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **SAM.gov UEI:** D3LHU66KBLD5
- **Principal Investigator:** RONALD R RINDFUSS
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $444,196
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1989-07-01 → 1997-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2199598

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 2199598, DEMOGRAPHIC RESPONSES TO A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT (2R01HD025482-03A2). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/2199598. Licensed CC0.

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