Incomplete Reporting of Men's Fertility in the United States and Britain: A Research Note

We evaluate men's retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Further, we analyze the PSID men's panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. One third to on...

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Published in:Demography 1999-02, Vol.36 (1), p.135-144
Main Authors: Rendall, Michael S., Clarke, Lynda, Peters, H. Elizabeth, Ranjit, Nalini, Verropoulou, Georgia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Bias
Birth Rate
Births
Black people
Children
Continental Population Groups
Data Collection - methods
Data Collection - standards
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Demographics
Demography
Error of Measurement
Errors
Families
Families & family life
Female
Female fertility
Fertility
Great Britain
Households
Humans
Incomplete
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Males
Marital Disruption
Marriage - statistics & numerical data
Men
Methodology
Methodology (Data Collection)
Nonresidents
Polls & surveys
Reporting
Reporting Error in the Census and Surveys
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
Single status
Statistical analysis
Studies
United Kingdom
United States
United States of America
Women
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Summary:We evaluate men's retrospective fertility histories from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Further, we analyze the PSID men's panel-updated fertility histories for their possible superiority over retrospective collection. One third to one half of men's nonmarital births and births within previous marriages are missed in estimates from retrospective histories. Differential survey underrepresentation of previously married men compared with previously married women accounts for a substantial proportion of the deficits in previous-marriage fertility. More recent retrospective histories and panel-updated fertility histories improve reporting completeness, primarily by reducing the proportion of marital births from unions that are no longer intact at the survey date.
ISSN:0070-3370
1533-7790
DOI:10.2307/2648139