Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

Autor:	Mia R. Zolna, Sheila Desai, Laura Duberstein Lindberg, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Kathryn Kost
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Adult Longitudinal study Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Social Stigma Survey measurement Fertility Documentation Abortion Article 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine National Longitudinal Surveys Longitudinal Studies Sampling frame reproductive and urinary physiology Demography media_common 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine Data Collection Data quality Abortion Induced Census United States Geography Socioeconomic Factors Respondent National Survey of Family Growth embryonic structures Female Monte Carlo Method
Zdroj:	Demography
ISSN:	1533-7790 0070-3370
Popis:	Despite its frequency, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized, and difficult-to-measure behavior. We present estimates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility surveys in the United States: the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Numbers of abortions reported in each survey were compared with external abortion counts obtained from a census of all U.S. abortion providers, with adjustments for comparable respondent ages and periods of each data source. We examined the influence of survey design factors, including survey mode, sampling frame, and length of recall, on abortion underreporting. We used Monte Carlo simulations to estimate potential measurement biases in relationships between abortion and other variables. Underreporting of abortion in the United States compromises the ability to study abortion—and, consequently, almost any pregnancy-related experience—using national fertility surveys. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s13524-020-00886-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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