Description & Citation--Study No. 4698 |
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| ICPSR Study No.: | 4698 |
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Persistent URL:
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04698 |
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| Title: | Low-Fertility Cohorts Study, 1978: A Survey of White, Ever-Married Women Belonging to the 1901-1910 United States Birth Cohorts |
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| Principal Investigator(s): | Jeanne C. Ridley, Georgetown University |
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| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
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| Grant Number: | NICHD RO1-HD15188 |
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| Bibliographic Citation: | Ridley, Jeanne C. Low-Fertility Cohorts Study, 1978: A Survey of White, Ever-Married Women Belonging to the 1901-1910 United States Birth Cohorts [Computer file]. ICPSR04698-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-08-13. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04698 |
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| Summary: | This study is comprised of personal interviews of white,
ever-married women born between July 1, 1900, and June 30, 1910. In
1978, a national survey of 1,049 married women between the ages of 68
and 78 were interviewed between the months of March and July in order
to investigate low fertility during the 1920s and 1930s and the women
of childbearing age during those decades. In addition to the general
purpose, the study was designed to gather information to test specific
hypotheses concerning demographic and socioeconomic differentials in
fertility, the prevalence of contraceptive practice and the methods
employed, the extent to which subfecundity and sterility may have
contributed to low fertility, and the timing patterns and childbearing
pace of the time. The interview collected information on each
respondent's family planning, contraception usage, pregnancy history,
fecundity, infertility, fertility, and maternal and infant health.
Besides demographic characteristics and background information about
the respondents, information was also gathered on their household
composition, their husband(s), marriages, and areas of residency. |
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| Subject Term(s): | birth control, contraception, family planning, family size, fathers, fecundity, fertility, household composition, infant health, infertility, marriage, maternal health, mothers, pregnancy, pregnancy history, sexual behavior |
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| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| Time Period: | 1901 - 1978 |
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| Date(s) of Collection: | 1978 |
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| Unit of Observation: | individual |
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| Universe: | White, ever-married women born between July 1, 1900, and
June 30, 1910 |
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| Data Type: | survey data |
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| Sample: | The sampling frame was designed as a multistage
probability sample of households in the coterminous United
States. Excluded from the sample were women residing in institutions,
women marrying for the first time after age 45, and foreign-born
women who migrated to the United States after reaching age 30. |
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| Mode of Data Collection: | face-to-face interview |
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| phone interview |
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| mailing questionnaire |
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| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| Original ICPSR Release: | 2007-08-13 |
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| Dataset(s): | - DS1: Low-Fertility Cohorts Study, 1978: A Survey of White, Ever-Married Women Belonging to the 1901-1910 United States Birth Cohorts
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