Untangling the Myths and Realities of Fertility and Mortality in the Pacific Islands
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Until the 1950s, information about the levels of fertility and mortality in the Pacific islands (see map on page 6) was fragmentary and much of it was anecdotal, but there was quite a lot of it. In that era, vital registration systems and periodic population censuses were the major sources of information on fertility and mortality, and the extent of these depended on the priority that each colonial administration was prepared to give to them and to the magnitude of the task. For instance, in better developed colonies such as Fiji, vital registration and a census sequence were long established, but in the larger Melanesian societies Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (see map) little had been attempted and knowledge
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