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Title: Revisiting Measures of Childbearing Intentions: Should We Worry About Measurement Error?
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Rybinska, Anna |
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Revisiting Measures of Childbearing Intentions: Should We Worry About Measurement Error? Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing; Family Size; Fertility; Statistical Analysis Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Although the measures of childbearing intentions are widely used in studies of fertility, little attention is paid to their statistical reliability. The effects of the intentions on subsequent behavior might be biased if the statistical reliability of the measures is poor. I employ the structural equations framework to build a measurement model of family size intentions and analyze the impact of the measurement error on the predictions of childbearing behavior for respondents of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results suggest that the measurement error in the intentions leads to underestimation of the coefficients. The effects of intentions of childbearing are significantly larger once the regression is adjusted for the measurement error. These results call for more attention to the precision of the measurement of intentions in future research. |
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Rybinska, Anna. "Revisiting Measures of Childbearing Intentions: Should We Worry About Measurement Error?" Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |