nmm 22 4500 ICPSR20000 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2008 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR20000 MiAaI MiAaI Growth of American Families, 1955 [electronic resource] Ronald Freedman , Arthur A. Campbell , Pascal K. Whelpton 2009-11-17 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2008 ICPSR 20000 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. The 1955 Growth of American Families survey was the first in a series of surveys (later becoming the National Fertility Survey) that measured women's attitudes on various topics related to fertility and family planning. The sample was composed of 2,713 married women aged 18-39 living in the United States. The survey included the following main subjects: residence history, marital history, education, income, occupation and employment, religiosity, family background, attitude toward contraception, contraception use, pregnancies and births, fecundity, opinions on childbearing and rearing, and fertility expectations. Respondents were asked questions pertaining to their residence history, including if they owned or rented their home, and if they lived on a farm. A series of questions also dealt with the respondents' marital history, including when they first married and the month and year of subsequent marriages. Respondents were also asked to describe the level of education they had attained and that of their husbands. Respondents were also asked to give information with respect to income, both individual and household, and if their financial situation was better now compared to five years ago. Respondents were queried on their occupation, specifically on what exactly they did and in what kind of business. Similar questions were asked about their husbands' occupations. Also, they were asked what their reasons were for working. The survey sought information about the respondents' religious affiliation and with what frequency they attended church. Respondents were asked how many brothers and sisters they had as well as their attitude about the number of siblings in their household. Also included was a series of questions regarding the respondents' attitudes toward family planning. Respondents were asked if they and their husband thought it was acceptable for couples to use contraceptives to limit the size of their family. They were also queried about what specific methods of contraception they had used in the past, and after which pregnancy they started using a particular method. Respondents were asked whether they or their husband had had surgery to make them sterile and if there was any other reason to believe that they could not have children. Respondents were also asked if they thought raising a family was easier or harder now than when they were a child. Respondents were also asked what they believed was the ideal number of children for the average American family and what the ideal number of children would be, if at age 45, they could start their married life over. Other questions addressed how many children respondents expected to have before their family was completed and their reason for not wanting more or less than that number. Each respondent was also asked when she expected her next child. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20000.v2 abortion icpsr attitudes icpsr birth icpsr birth control icpsr education icpsr family planning icpsr family size icpsr fertility icpsr income icpsr marriage icpsr population growth icpsr pregnancy icpsr religious beliefs icpsr reproductive history icpsr sexual behavior icpsr DSDR I. Fertility IFSS I. Integrated Fertility Survey Series DSDR IV. Family and Household Structure ICPSR XVII.H. Social Institutions and Behavior, Family and Gender Freedman, Ronald Campbell, Arthur A. Whelpton, Pascal K. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 20000 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20000.v2 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR20001 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2008 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR20001 MiAaI MiAaI Growth of American Families, 1960 [electronic resource] Pascal K. Whelpton , Arthur A. Campbell , John E. Patterson 2008-09-25 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2008 ICPSR 20001 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. The 1960 Growth of American Families survey was the second in a series of two surveys that measured women's attitudes on various topics relating to fertility and family planning for 3,256 currently married White women aged 18-44 living in private households, previously married White women aged 23-44, who were married and living with their husband in 1960, and currently married non-White women aged 18-39, living with their husband. Main topics in the survey included residence history, marital history, education, employment and income, parent's characteristics, religiosity, siblings, attitude towards contraception, past use of contraceptives, fertility history, fecundity, attitudes and opinions on childbearing and rearing, desired family size, fertility intentions, and fertility expectations. Respondent's were asked to give detailed information pertaining to their residence history dating back to their birth. They were also asked if they ever lived on a farm. Respondents were also queried on their marital history, specifically, when their marriage(s) took place, ended, and how they ended. Respondents were asked to report their level of education, if they ever attended a school or college that belonged to a church or a religious group, and if so, what specific church or religious group. Respondents were also queried about their employment and income. Specifically, they were asked to report their own and their husband's occupation and industry. They were also queried on whether they worked between their pregnancies and if the work was part-time or full-time. They were asked to state their total family income and their husband's earnings. Characteristics of the respondent's parents were also asked for including nationality, occupation while respondent was growing up, and religious preference. Respondent's religiosity was also explored with questions about religious activities in their daily lives, as well as her own and her husband's religious preferences. Respondents were asked if they had attended Sunday school as a child and if their children currently attended Sunday school. Respondents were asked how many brothers and sisters they had while growing up as well as their attitude on the number of siblings in their household. Their attitude toward contraception was measured with questions that asked if it would be okay if couples did something to limit the number of pregnancies they had or to control the time when they get pregnant. They were also asked if they approved of couples using the rhythm method to keep from getting pregnant. They were also queried on what specific types of contraception they had used in the past and between pregnancies. Furthermore, they were asked if they ever used methods together. Fecundity was also explored with questions about whether they or their husband had had treatments or an operation that made them sterile. Respondents were also asked what they thought was the ideal number of children for the average American family. Desired family size was queried in a number of other ways including the number of children the respondent and her husband wanted before marriage, how many children the respondent wanted a year after the first child was born, and how many children the respondent expected in all. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20001.v1 education icpsr family history icpsr family planning icpsr family size icpsr fertility icpsr adoption icpsr attitudes icpsr birth icpsr birth control icpsr income icpsr job history icpsr marriage icpsr population growth icpsr pregnancy icpsr religious beliefs icpsr reproductive history icpsr sexual behavior icpsr DSDR I. Fertility DSDR IV. Family and Household Structure ICPSR XVII.H. Social Institutions and Behavior, Family and Gender IFSS I. Integrated Fertility Survey Series Whelpton, Pascal K. Campbell, Arthur A. Patterson, John E. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 20001 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20001.v1