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title	:	How Does Congress Approach Population and Family Planning Issues? : Results of Qualitative Interviews With Legislative Directors
author	:	Patterson, Sally.; Adamson, David M.
publisher	:	RAND
isbn10 | asin	:	0833027042
print isbn13	:	9780833027047
ebook isbn13	:	9780585220611
language	:	English
subject	Birth control--Government policy--Research--United States, Birth control--Developing countries, Population assistance, American--Developing countries, Legislators--United States--Attitudes, United States.--Congress.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	HQ763.6.U5P37 1999eb
ddc	:	363.9/6/072073
subject	:	Birth control--Government policy--Research--United States, Birth control--Developing countries, Population assistance, American--Developing countries, Legislators--United States--Attitudes, United States.--Congress.

The research described in this report was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the United Nations Population Fund. ISBN: 0-8330-2704-2 RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND is a registered trademark. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of its research sponsors. Copyright 1999 RAND All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical mean (including photocopying , recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND. Published 1999 by RAND 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 1333 H St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005-4707 RAND URL: http://www.rand.org/ To order RAND documents or to obtain additional information, contact Distribution Services: Telephone: (310) 451-7002; Fax: (310) 451-6915; Internet: order@rand.org

Page i How Does Congress Approach Population and Family Planning Issues Results of Qualitative Interviews with Legislative Directors RAND Sally Patterson David M. Adamson Supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Rockefeller Foundation United Nations Population Fund

Page iii Preface This report presents the results of qualitative interviews with legislative directors for members of the U.S. Congress on population-related issues. The interviews were conducted in July and August of 1997. The purpose was to deepen understanding of how legislators view these issues, what their information needs on the subject are, and how information usually reaches them. The interviews explored attitudes and knowledge about issues related to population, such as foreign relations, family planning, the environment, and immigration. The interviews were conducted for RAND's PopulationMatters project. The primary focus of this project is synthesizing and communicating the findings and implications of existing demographic research in ways that policy audiences and other interested groups will find accessible. The project grew out of the belief, held by many in both research and policy circles, that the results of demographic research are relatively inaccessible to policy audiences and therefore have less impact than they otherwise might. One of the project's challenges is to identify key policy audiences, understand how research-based demographic information might be useful to them, and devise strategies for communicating it to them effectively. One of these key audiences is the U.S. Congress. Therefore, to help us better understand which areas of demographic research to focus on and how best to convey the findings to Congress, we decided to survey congressional audiences to get a sense of their knowledge and attitudes about population issues.

Page iv These interviews helped to shape the project's first major report (TheValueofFamilyPlanninginDevelopingCountries, by Rodolfo A. Bulatao) and a related Issue Paper ("Family Planning in Developing Countries: An Unfinished Success Story," by Julie DaVanzo and David M. Adamson). This document should be of interest to anyone concerned with congressional knowledge of and views on population-related issues. This research was conducted within RAND's Labor and Population Program. The work was supported by grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the United Nations Population Fund. For further information on the PopulationMatters project, contact: Julie DaVanzo, Director, PopulationMatters RAND P.O Box 2138 1700 Main St. Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 Julie_DaVanzo@rand.org Or visit the project's web site at http://www.rand.org.popmatters

Page v Contents Preface iii Table vii Summary ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter One Introduction 1 Background and Motivation 1

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