Estimating the Effect on Unwanted Fertility of a Postpartum Recruitment Strategy.

The article focuses on the used of the population simulation procedure, a one-race, two-sex model that runs on the IBM 360/75, developed by the University of North Carolina and the Research Triangle Institute, to determine the effects of a postpartum recruitment program on unwanted fertility. A family planning module has been added to the model to stimulate a postpartum family planning situation. Under this module, each woman giving birth in the interval of interest is invited to take part in the program. The program effect is gradual and continues to reduce unwanted births for 9 or 10 years and it is more dramatic on blacks compared to whites.