TY - JOUR
T1 - Completeness of young fathers' reports of fertility
AU - Lindberg, Laura Duberstein
AU - Sonenstein, Freya Lund
AU - Martinez, Gladys
AU - Marcotte, John
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Repeated findings that men underreport their fertility in social surveys raises concerns about the usefulness of survey data collected from men. We calculate the birth rate reported by unmarried males ages 15-19 in the National Survey of Adolescent Males. We also calculate the rate of fatherhood among adolescent males from maternal reports in the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Comparisons of birth rates to unmarried adolescent males, as measured by these maternal and paternal reports, show no statistically significant differences between the two sources of information. We conclude that it is possible to collect accurate fertility information from young men.
AB - Repeated findings that men underreport their fertility in social surveys raises concerns about the usefulness of survey data collected from men. We calculate the birth rate reported by unmarried males ages 15-19 in the National Survey of Adolescent Males. We also calculate the rate of fatherhood among adolescent males from maternal reports in the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Comparisons of birth rates to unmarried adolescent males, as measured by these maternal and paternal reports, show no statistically significant differences between the two sources of information. We conclude that it is possible to collect accurate fertility information from young men.
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U2 - 10.3233/jem-1998-0141
DO - 10.3233/jem-1998-0141
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0006233585
SN - 0747-9662
VL - 24
SP - 15
EP - 23
JO - Journal of Economic and Social Measurement
JF - Journal of Economic and Social Measurement
IS - 1
ER -