The Quality of Male Fertility Data in Major U.S. Surveys.
Researchers continue to question fathers' willingness to report their biological children in surveys and the ability of surveys to adequately represent fathers. To address these concerns, this study evaluates the quality of men's fertility data in the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudin...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 101 - 125 |
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