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The contributors to this discussion were invited to submit comments, each from a different standpoint, on the paper by John Caldwell and Thomas Schindlmayr that appeared in the preceding issue of the journal. The invitation was issued with the approval of these authors, and the journal is grateful to them for allowing their paper to be used to generate debate on the issues they had raised. The discussion is followed by the authors' response to it.

The article lists the editors that passed their reviewing papers to the journal including Mary Abbott, Linda Adair and Juha Alho.

A list of the referees for papers submitted to "Population Studies" in 2005 and 2006 is presented.

The article lists researchers who have refereed papers related to population studies submitted to the journal. Some of these researchers are Omar Ahmad from University of Ghana, George Alter from Indiana University, Barbara Anderson from University of Michigan, Alaka Basu from Cornell University, David Bishai from John Hopkins University, Lisa Cameron of University of Melbourne, Sam Clark from University of Pennsylvania, Donald Cox from Boston College, Benjamin Davis from Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, David Dunson from Duke University, Sumit Guha from Brown University, Hugh Gravelle from University of York, Roger Jeffery from University of Edinburgh, James Lee from University of Michigan, Nancy Luke from Brown University, Orly Manor from Tel Aviv University, Cynthia Osborne from Princeton University, Kelly Raley from University of Texas, Ann Stevens from University of California at Berkeley, John Stillwell from University of Leeds, Susan Watkins of University of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Vartanian from Bryn Mawr College.

The article lists reviewers for the periodical "Population Studies" from 2009 to 2010. People mentioned include Stan Becker, Eva Bernhardt, and Ann Biddlecom.

Abstract At the present time there are very few populations, whose members do not practise contraception at all, or only to a very limited extent, and for whom accurate data on nuptiality and fertility exist. Among populations of European residence or origin, there are only a few groups who reject any limitation of families for religious reasons. One of these, the Hutterites, has already been studied; the other, the Old Order Amish, is studied in Ericksen's papers, and my preceding remarks point to the importance of this study.

Abstract In his paper Okore(1) critically examines the view of Olusanya and Ekanem that, partly because of shorter periods of breastfeeding and abstinence associated with 'modernization', urban fertility exceeds rural. Unfortunately, the proponents of this view have produced very few hard data on durations of breast-feeding and abstinence.(2).

Although the history of birth control in nineteenth-century Britain is a well-researched area, not a great deal of attention has been directed to the obstacles which birth control advocates had to overcome in trying to promote their cause. That the Malthusian League was responsible for disseminating a considerable literature on the question is well known, but the difficulties it faced in the last quarter of the nineteenth century have not been the subject of much study. This paper examines some of these difficulties. Part of the problem for the League lay in the slenderness of its own resources and in the commitment of its leader Drysdale to a particular economic doctrine. A far greater part lay in the publicly expressed opposition to the idea of birth Control. That Opposition came from a wide variety of sources. The obstacles posed by the law, contemporary Christian morality and by the hostility of the medical profession are deal with briefly. Less well known were the obstacles posed by some contemporary versions of Darwinian ideas and by imperialism. But the greatest public opposition to League propaganda. this paper suggests, came from socialists in the 1880s. The paper examines the exchanges between socialists and birth controllers and tries to describe the way in which an accommodation Of viewpoints between them came about in the last quarter of the century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Demographers who use survey data and census data from health and demographic surveillance areas can gain substantially from expanding their repertoire of methods to make use of qualitative methods. Similarly, those who conduct and analyse data primarily from semi-structured interviews or focus groups can benefit from information provided by survey research. This paper presents a systematic mixed-methods model—data-linked nested studies—for sampling respondents for semi-structured interviews from survey or census lists. The paper outlines how to conduct these types of study, and their technical and analytical advantages. It highlights the benefits of building on a strong foundation, the ability to compare samples, and the expansion of the range of evidence for, or against, the validity of the substantive findings. Case studies from two data-linked nested projects—in Malawi and South Africa—are used to describe in detail the nested-study approach. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

According to the author, in a paper published in a previous issue of the journal Population Studies, he questioned the validity of the so-called Far Eastern pattern of mortality as a unique regional mortality model. In her response researcher Noreen Goldman makes three major points. First, the Far Eastern mortality pattern as originally formulated by her differs from that defined by the United Nations Population Division. Second, the method used in author's analysis is different from that of her and not effective in discerning mortality patterns. Third, the Far Eastern mortality pattern as defined by her is indeed a unique mortality model. In this article the author comments on these assertions and further demonstrates that the Far Eastern mortality pattern is not unique regional model. Goldman provides some useful information in her rejoinder, but her major conclusions are unconvincing. While her early investigation into mortality changes in East Asia played a notable role in alerting demographers to the deficiencies of life tables for describing mortality experiences outside of the industrialized world, the claim that the Far Eastern mortality pattern is a distinctive regional mortality model is not well founded.