National Survey of Family Growth Variables Now Available for Discovery and Comparison
DSDR is pleased to announce the addition of variable-level metadata to the DSDR catalog for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), United States, 2011-2019 (ICPSR 38009). NSFG variables are now discoverable during searches of the Social Science Variables Database and can be compared to variables in other DSDR and ICPSR studies. The NSFG 2011-2019 public-use data and documentation files are available through the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) webpage.
The NSFG gathers information on pregnancy and births, marriage and cohabitation, infertility, contraception use, family life, general and reproductive health. The survey sample is designed to produce national data, not estimates for individual states. Beginning in 1973, NSFG was designed to be nationally representative of ever-married women 15-44 years of age in the civilian, non-institutionalized population of the United States (household population). Later sample adjustments to NSFG include:
- Interviewing women aged 15-44 regardless of marital experience (1982)
- Interviewing an independent sample of men aged 15-44 (2002)
- Expanding the age range for women and men to 15-49 (2015)
- Grandparent-Parent-Adult Child triplets: ~1,400
Access the National Survey of Family Growth Series
Sep 29, 2021