 While most agree that the policies have been very interventionist, comprehensive and broad, the Library of Congress Country Study argues ""it is impossible to separate the effects of government policies from the broader socioeconomic forces promoting later marriage and smaller families,"" suggesting that the government could only work with or work against much more powerful natural demographic trends.To the researchers of the study, the methods used in 1987 to attempt to reverse the falling birth rate was a demonstration of "the government's [continued] assumption" that citizens were receptive towards monetary incentives and administrative allocation of social services when it came to family planning.However Saw Swee Hock, a statistician and demographer quoted in the "Straits Times" in 2008, argued the demographic transition "was rapid because of the government's strong population control measures," but also admitted that, "even without the Stop at Two policy, the [total fertility rate] would have gone below 2.1 due to [the demographic transition]."