The Best Intentions Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families (1995) / Chapter Skim
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C The National Survey of Family Growth
C The National Survey of Family Growth
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The survey also collects information on other social and demographic characteristics that have been found to influence reproductive behaviors, such as family background, income, education, and labor-force participation. The NSFG is federally funded and is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
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The questions were extended to unmarried women and their partners in 1982. The series of questions on unintended pregnancy has remained essentially unchanged, preserving the comparability of the data over time and permitting trend analysis.
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. Testing of a follow-up clarifying question in the NCHS Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory found evidence that although some women accurately reported a pregnancy as unwanted (they did not want to get pregnant then or at any time in the future)
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Method users do not necessarily use their method correctly or every time that they have sexual intercourse. The NSFG lacks measures of the extent to which unplanned pregnancies result after the incorrect use of methods, from methods that are faulty themselves, and from failure to use a method at all.
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NSFG pretest results showed that both A-CASI and monetary incentives significantly increased abortion reporting. About 14 percent of respondents who received no incentive and no A-CASI interview reported ever having had an abortion, whereas 30 percent of respondents who received both an incentive and an A-CASI interview reported ever having had an abortion (Research Triangle Institute, 1994~.
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The NSFG and RTI staff designed similar questions to measure ambivalence about becoming pregnant, that is, to measure ambivalent feelings at the time of conception. The questions, which follow, were tested in the NSFG pretest in 1993 and will be asked in the 1995 NSFG of women under 25 years of age.
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You looked forward to buying things for a new baby. Improving Questions on Unplanned Pregnancies and Use of Contraception NSFG staff have added method-specific questions about how consistently women used contraception before becoming pregnant.
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For example, a woman who used a contraceptive method inconsistently and who as a result had an unplanned pregnancy and an abortion may be reluctant to report this information to the interviewer and may instead report a period of successful contraceptive use. To address this possibility, Me A-CASI section of Me 1995 NSFG follows up any new reports of abortions win a set of
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Safe period by temperature or cervical mucus test or natural family planning? Withdrawal?
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National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle V, Pretest Report. Research Triangle Park: Research Triangle Institute; 1994.
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