[Medical-demographic processes and rural family]

Analysis of medical demographic parameters of the Nizhnii Ingash territory of Krasnoyarsk region is analyzed for the period of 1959-1999. Periods of changes (transformations) in the rural territory are distinguished. Time course of natural migration of population correlated with these periods. Number of children per rural family was estimated for the Krasnoyarsk region and Nizhny Ingash territory and the regularity of transformation of a traditional family with many children into a family with few children is described. Interviews of the population revealed the relationship between social reforms and reproductive policy of families.