National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Interval File (ICPSR 8181)

Version Date: Oct 27, 2008

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08181.v1

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Alternate Title

1976 NSFG: Interval File

Summary

This data collection contains detailed information collected from 8,611 respondents about their pregnancy histories, including the date, outcome, and order of all pregnancies, whether they were single or multiple births, sex and weight of infants, mortality, breastfeeding of infants, and information on the respondent's residence, periods of non-intercourse, contraceptive methods used, and regularity of use. Other information about the respondents can be found in NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH, CYCLE II, 1976: COUPLE FILE (ICPSR 7902). In addition, the Couple File contains summary measures of fertility derived from this data collection.

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Interval File. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08181.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1976

Date of Collection

1976-01 -- 1976-09

Data Collection Notes

  1. (1) Data for CYCLE I, 1973 (ICPSR 7898), CYCLE II, 1976: COUPLE FILE (ICPSR 7902), CYCLE III, 1982 (ICPSR 8328), CYCLE IV, 1988 (ICPSR 9473) and 1990 (ICPSR 6643), CYCLE V, 1995 (ICPSR 6960), and CYCLE VI, 2002 (ICPSR 4157) are also available from ICPSR. (2) 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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Sample

A multistage probability sample of women from approximately 33,000 households.

Universe

Women living in the coterminous United States, aged 15-44 years inclusive, who were either currently married, previously married, or never married but had offspring presently living in the household.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

personal interviews

Data Type(s)

Response Rates

The sample consisted of 10,202 eligible women of whom 8,611 completed extended interviews yielding a response rate of approximately 84 percent.

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Original Release Date

1984-07-12

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle II, 1976: Interval File. ICPSR08181-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-27. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08181.v1

2008-10-27 This study has been updated to include SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files as well as SAS transport, SPSS system, and Stata system files.

1984-07-12 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.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.