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Fertility And Family Planning Among Navajo Indian Recipients Of Public Welfare Assistance In Southeastern Utah, Gary Morris Shaffer
Fertility And Family Planning Among Navajo Indian Recipients Of Public Welfare Assistance In Southeastern Utah, Gary Morris Shaffer
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
A fertility and family planning survey was conducted among the recipients of pub lie welfare ass i stance in San Juan County, Utah. Two hundred twenty-five recipient families out of some 536 families on the list were interviewed during May and June of 1968 by nine graduate and undergraduate students in Sociology and Social Work with the help of Social Welfare workers and Navajo interpreters.
The study was primarily concerned with the following objectives: (1) to study the level and age patterns of fertility of a group of selected Navajo Indians, (2) to investigate the factors which might affect the …