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Title: Life Course Dynamics of Unintended and Mistimed Pregnancies Among American Women
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Morgan, S. Philip Quesnel-Vallée, Amélie |
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Life Course Dynamics of Unintended and Mistimed Pregnancies Among American Women Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 12, 2005. Also: http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/2/0/9/8/pages20988/p20988-1.php Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Fertility; Life Course; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Sexual Behavior Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study relies on longitudinal, prospective assessments of fertility intentions and behaviors of 1957 to 1961 birth cohorts of U.S. women to evaluate the correspondence between pregnancies explicitly reported as unwanted or mistimed, and those associated with changing intentions. We first assess the contribution of unwanted and mistimed pregnancies to the observed fertility of these cohorts of women, and then examine the dynamic contribution of life course factors to changing intentions. We build on a framework developed by Bongaarts (2001) in selecting the life course factors that merit attention in this regard. Data were drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, a nationally representative survey which prospectively follows the parallel evolution of fertility intentions and reproductive histories. To ensure that the analyses reach the near end of the respondents' reproductive years, the sample is restricted to 2,720 women 40 years or older in 2002 (vital registration statistics indicate that only 1-2% of the U.S. TFR is due to women above 40). |
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Morgan, S. Philip and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée. "Life Course Dynamics of Unintended and Mistimed Pregnancies Among American Women." Presented: Philadelphia, PA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 12, 2005. |