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Incomplete reporting of men's fertility in the United States and Britain: a research note.

The writers assess men's retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID). In addition, they examine the PSID men's panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. They repo...

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Publicado en:Demography Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 135 - 145
Autores principales: Rendall, Michael S., Clarke, Lynda, Peters, H. Elizabeth
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Science & Business Media B.V. February 1999
Materias:
Fertility, Human
Social surveys
Response rates
Statistical sampling
Sociology methodology
Statistical methods in sociology
United States
United Kingdom
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Sumario:The writers assess men's retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID). In addition, they examine the PSID men's panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. They report that one-third to one-half of men's nonmarital births and births within previous marriages are missed in estimates from retrospective histories. They argue that differential survey underrepresentation of previously married men compared with previously married women explains a substantial proportion of the deficits in previous-marriage fertility. They assert that more recent retrospective histories and panel-updated fertility histories enhance reporting completeness, mainly by lowering the proportion of marital births from unions that are no longer intact at the survey date.