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Family and Population Control Study: Puerto Rico, 1953-1954 (ICPSR 7062)

Released/updated on: 2009-11-13

Geographic coverage: Puerto Rico, West Indies, Global

Time period: 1953-01-01--1954-01-01

This study was conducted in 1953 and 1954 in both urban and rural areas of Puerto Rico. The interviews explored the relationship between husband and wife in questions about family organization and role, degree of intimacy, sexual relations, and satisfaction with the marriage. Further variables probed attitudes toward children: ideal family size, the importance of children in marriage, and parent-child relations. The study also examined the respondents' attitudes toward birth control, knowledge of where to obtain birth control materials, and birth control methods the respondents used. Derived measures include several Guttman scales. Of the total sample, 566 interviews were conducted with wives only, and 322 with husbands and wives together.

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Gender Equity-focused, Male-centered Family Planning for Rural India (ICPSR 35856)

Released/updated on: 2015-04-23

Geographic coverage: India

The study involves development and testing of the Counseling Husbands to Achieve Reproductive health and Marital equity (CHARM) Program. In Phase 1, the project conducts in-depth interviews with rural young husbands (N=30), rural young wives (N=20), and health care providers (N=12), as well as focus groups with mothers of rural young husbands (N=40). Phase 2 involves development and pilot testing of CHARM protocols and training of volunteer health professionals (VHPs) for their role in the intervention trial. In Phase 3, villages (N=50) are randomized to receive either CHARM or the control program (standard FP referral to government public health centers [PHCs] located outside of villages), to assess treatment impact on spacing contraceptive use, pregnancy, and unmet family planning needs. Intervention effects are assessed via behavioral surveys collected on hand-held computers (PDAs) with rural young husbands (18-30 years) and their wives (N=1500 couples, 30 couples per village) at baseline and 6, 12, and 18 month follow-up, as well as pregnancy tests from wives, conducted at baseline and 18 month follow-up.

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Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH), 1998-2021 (ICPSR 20840)

Released/updated on: 2026-03-04

Geographic coverage: Malawi, Africa

Time period: 1998-01-01--2021-01-01

The Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) is one of very few long-standing longitudinal cohort studies in a poor Sub-Saharan African (SSA) context. It provides a record of more than 25 years of demographic, socioeconomic, and health conditions in one of the world's poorest countries. Initial data collection began in 1998 under the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) to examine social networks and fertility decisions among married women and their husbands. While this initial study population is still followed, the scope of the project and population expanded to a broader focus on social and contextual determinants of health across the lifecourse in Malawi.

This collection includes Rounds 1 through 9 of the MLSFH, as well as supplemental data collections from Sexual Diaries, Migration Follow-Ups (MHM), a Biomarker Survey, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and a Benefits of Knowledge Intervention Survey. The MLSFH Data web page contains additional information and cohort profiles for all MLSFH data collections, including those not made available through ICPSR-DSDR.