RESUMO
PIP: As Singapore has reached replacement level fertility as of 1975, the goals of its national family planning and population program are to maintain current population rates. This is being carried out through combined efforts of several government ministries. Despite a rise in the crude birth rate from 16.9 per 1000 in 1978 to 17.3 per 1000 in 1979, rate of natural increase has remained at 1.2%. Net reproduction rate is actually below fertility level. Program activities have been maintained, including mass campaigns in family planning in rural areas. Seminars on population education were given to school teachers through the Ministry of Education and campaigns aimed at factory workers are being jointly launched by the Singapore Family Planning and Health Board, the Ministry of Health and the National Trades Union Congress. A plateau of around 15,000-16,000 new family planning acceptors joining annually has been reached. The condom has increased in popularity as a method with a reciprocal decline in the percentages of women choosing contraceptive pills. Female sterilization rates have also fallen off. The rate of abortions has declined slightly.^ieng
