Acknowledgments.

This report represents a collaborative effort between The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and colleagues from a broad range of organizations and institutions worldwide. We are grateful for their guidance and assistance. Susheela Singh, associate director of research at AGI, directed the research, and Deirdre Wulf, an independent consultant, wrote this report. Both were assisted by Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, senior vice president and vice president for research, and David Landry; senior research associate. Dote Hollander, associate editor, and Jeanette Johnson, acting director of publications, edited the text.

In addition, the assistance and advice of other AGI staff were invaluable to the report's preparation: Beth Fredrick, Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg, Kathleen Randall, Cory Richards, Jeannie Rosoff and Susan Tew. Finally, this report would not have been possible without the research assistance of Laura Rollins, Gilda Sedgh, Erin Sullivan and Thu Vu, and the administrative assistance of Susan Grady and Sussann Nasr.

The research and analysis, particularly on China and India, were assisted by Krishna Roy, independent consultant; Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, helped with bibliographic research. Project collaborators advised on and provided information for China, France and Japan: Gu Baochang, Li Bohua and others, Population Information and Research Centre, China; Henri Leridon and Laurent Toulemon, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, France; and Makoto Atoh, Kaneko and Takehara Kaneko, Institute of Population Problems, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan. The assistance of the staff of Macro International in providing documentation and data files for 38 developing countries is acknowledged, as is the work of the in-country staff who carried out Demographic and Health Surveys in these 38 countries and the staff of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, which was responsible for carrying out the 1988 ...