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Title: Measuring Maternal Multi-partnered Fertility with the NLSY79
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Dorius, Cassandra J. |
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Measuring Maternal Multi-partnered Fertility with the NLSY79 Presented: Denver CO, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Fertility; Fertility, Multiple Partners; Kinship; Motherhood; Record Linkage (also see Data Linkage) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Much of the research regarding multipartnered fertility has been produced using a small number of publically available national surveys such as the Add Health, and Fragile Families and Child Well Being Surveys. Unexpectedly, the NLSY 1979 has not been used to assess MPF among adults from the 1957-1964 birth cohort, although distinctive survey characteristics make this an ideal candidate for future work. This paper provides a step-by-step explanation of how one can produce reliable and valid measures of women’s multiple partner fertility by utilizing the NSLY79 data. This approach provides the potential to advance our understanding of contemporary American family life by (1) developing a more effective way to assess the complexity of relationship histories, (2) measuring multiple partner fertility in a broader and more dimensional way, (3) playing to the strengths of family scholars by utilizing a survey that many researchers are familiar with and have the ability to use given that it is publically available and free of charge, and (4) avoiding many of the weakness of past research by conceptualizing change as a single event rather than a process. |
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Dorius, Cassandra J. "Measuring Maternal Multi-partnered Fertility with the NLSY79." Presented: Denver CO, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2012. |