Incomplete reporting of men’s fertility in the united states and britain: A research note | Zendy

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Incomplete reporting of men’s fertility in the united states and britain: A research note

Author(s) -

Michael S. Rendall,

Lynda Clarke,

H. Elizabeth Peters,

Nalini Ranjit,

Georgia Verropoulou

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.2307/2648139

Subject(s) - fertility , panel study of income dynamics , demography , british household panel survey , marital status , panel survey , retrospective cohort study , panel data , demographic economics , population , medicine , economics , sociology , econometrics

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.

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