Husbands' vs. Wives' responses to a fertility survey

Yaukey, David; Roberts, Beryl J.; Griffiths, William E.

doi:10.1080/00324728.1965.10406003

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“…Les désaccords sur la taille de la famille souhaitée résul- (Bisson, 1975: 57-87) et les attitudes face aux facteurs extérieurs qui peuvent les conditionner (Bisson, 1975: 99-137 1965;Knodel et Prachuabrnoh: 1976;Coombs et Fernandez: 1978). Ils montrent que l'on ne peut pas poser a priori l'accord parfait entre les époux pour négliger d'interroger les maris.…”

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Souhaits individuels et comportement du couple en matière de fécondité

Fernandez

Gauvreau

2009

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Dans un couple, l’homme et la femme ne souhaitent pas nécessairement le même nombre d’enfants et l’idée de chacun en cette matière s’avère importante pour la détermination du nombre qu’ils finiront par avoir. Les données de l’enquête de fécondité menée au Québec en 1971 permettent de mesurer l’accord des conjoints sur cette question à divers moments. Elles montrent qu’on ne peut, sans risque d’erreur, prendre la femme comme unique répondante dans les enquêtes de ce genre. Le degré de concordance des époux est déterminé, entre autres, par les règles du choix du conjoint. La construction d’un indice de proximité fait apparaître une corrélation positive entre la concordance des conjoints en matière de fécondité et le degré d’homogamie des couples

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Souhaits individuels et comportement du couple en matière de fécondité

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Gauvreau

2009

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“…(37) Considerable disagreement between these responses was found in relation to several items; e.g., use of contraceptives and attempts to induce abortions. The main source of error was in underreporting of contraceptive use by females.…”

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F. Studies Related to Family Planning

1967

Health Education Monographs

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“…Data from Thailand (Knodel & Prachuabmoh, 1976)indicate considerable similarity between men and women in family composition preferences and attitudes toward use of contraception. Malaysian data (Coombs & Fernandez 1978) and East Pakistan data (Yaukey et al, 1965) show that congruence of views for marital partners is considerably less than it is for aggregates of men and women.…”

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“…beliefs that are potentially related to such goals. In most fertility surveys, the wife has been the focus of attention, partly because detailed information, pregnancy history for example, was more readily and accurately obtained from the wife, although Yaukey's study in Dacca (Yaukey, Roberts, & Griffiths, 1965) raised doubts about the greater accuracy of wives' reports. That the attitudes of the husbands toward fertility should be as pertinent as those of the wife for fertility achievement seems obvious and it has been suggested that, in cultures where males tend to dominate decisions, his views may be the more important (Yaukey, Griffiths, & Roberts, 1967;Mukherjee, 1975).…”

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Do husbands and wives agree? Fertility attitudes and later behavior

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Chang²

1981

Popul Environ

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Analysis of the extent to which husbands and wives agree in their attitudes toward a number of key issues that may affect fertility behavior shows that although aggregate views of men and women are remarkably similar, marital couples are frequently in disagreement, particularly if measures discounting for chance agreement of responses are employed. In other words, we cannot accept either the husband or the wife as a surrogate respondent. These conclusions are based on data from cross-sectional surveys in a developing society, Taiwan, of 2000 couples in which the wife was of childbearing age. The impact on fertility of such marital disagreement varies with the attitude in question. Followup birth data over a four-year period indicate that, when there is disagreement, it is the wife's attitude that has more influence on fertility, particularly if she has the stronger belief about the future security and status to be derived from a large family and from sons. In the constellation of factors that may affect fertility, increasing attention has focused recently on the role of the husband and his attitudes toward reproductive goals and toward values and The data for this paper were collected by the Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning under the direction of T.S. Sun, in collaboration with the University of Michigan Population Studies Center and with the financial assistance of the Population Council. Grants from the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Ford Foundation provided support for the analysis. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of James B. Rogers in the computer work and of Ronald Freedman in comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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Husbands' vs. Wives' responses to a fertility survey

Cited by 24 publications

References 2 publications

Souhaits individuels et comportement du couple en matière de fécondité

Souhaits individuels et comportement du couple en matière de fécondité

F. Studies Related to Family Planning

Do husbands and wives agree? Fertility attitudes and later behavior

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