Metadata record for National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle I, 1973

National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle I, 1973 1973 NSFG United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2008-10-08 7898 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07898.v1

This data collection contains information on maternal and child health, family practices, and attitudes of 9,797 women aged 15-44 living in the coterminous United States who were either currently married, previously married, or never married but had offspring living in the household in 1973. The data have been utilized by the National Center for Health Statistics as the basis for a series of reports on the determinants and consequences of patterns of family formation and fertility in the United States in 1973. Extensive information was gathered from respondents about their pregnancies. They were asked about their family planning practices and consultations, prenatal and postnatal care, medical conditions, number of pregnancies and live births, problems experienced in conceiving, complicated pregnancies, sterilization, and medical checkup history. Data are also provided on respondents' desired number of children, birth expectations, and family size preferences. Other demographic variables provide information on respondents' family history, date of birth, race, ethnicity, religion, education, occupation, employment, and income.

UniverseScheme07898 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00048. DSDR.I ICPSR.XVII.H IFSS.I DSDR.III adoption birth birth control birth expectations child health families family life family planning fertility pregnancy prenatal care reproductive history womens health care United States 1973 1973 individual survey data Women 15-44 years of age who were married, previously married, or single with children of their own in the household. A multistage probability sample of women aged 15-44 living in the coterminous United States who were either currently married, previously married, or never married but had offspring living in the household in 1973. 1973-09 1973-09

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created online analysis version with question text.

Approximately eighty percent. ICPSR

In preparing the data file(s) for this collection, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has removed direct identifiers and characteristics that might lead to identification of data subjects. As an additional precaution NCHS requires, under Section 308(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m), that data collected by NCHS not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. NCHS further requires that analysts not use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and that the director of NCHS be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. ICPSR member institutions and other users ordering data from ICPSR are expected to adhere to these restrictions.

AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.

The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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See also the related collections, NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE II, 1976: INTERVAL FILE (ICPSR 8181), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE II, 1976: COUPLE FILE (ICPSR 7902), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE III, 1982 (ICPSR 8328), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE IV, 1988 (ICPSR 9473), NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE IV: 1990 TELEPHONE INTERVIEW (ICPSR 6643), and NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE V, 1995 (ICPSR 6960).

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Dates in this dataset are often given as century months. For more detailed information on how century months are calculated please see the "Date Codes" section of the codebook.

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Variables EMP_JOBTYPE and H_EMP_JOBTYPE (both in the Respondent File) do not have value labels due to certain Stata restrictions. Please refer to the Occupational Classification section of the ICPSR Codebook for more information on the coding of the variables.

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Please note that values in the data, which were originally coded as "blank" have been converted to system missing.

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For additional information regarding the prestige scores used in the coding of variables EMP_PRESTIGE and H_EMP_PRESTIGE (both in the Respondent File), please see the Occupational Classification section of the ICPSR Codebook.