Integrated Fertility Survey Series, Release 7, 1955-2002 [United States]

Fifty Years of Unintended Births: Education Gradients in Unintended Fertility in the US, 1960–2013

“…Data for this analysis come from the Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS), a harmonized dataset combining data from ten surveys of fertility and family behavior conducted in the United States between 1955 and 2002 (Smock, Granda, and Hoelter ), supplemented by data from the 2006–10 and 2011–13 releases of the continuous cycle of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The component surveys of the IFSS are the Growth of American Families (GAF) surveys of 1955 and 1960; the National Fertility Surveys (NFS) of 1965 and 1970; and the NSFG of 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, and 2002.…”

Measuring heterogeneity in preferences over the sex of children

“…Table E.1 lists birth history surveys by country. Sources for the surveys are as follows: China Two-per-thousand Fertility Survey (China Fertility Survey 1988), Demographic and Health Survey (ICF International 1985–2017), RAND Family Life Surveys (Frankenberg and Karoly 1995, Rahman et al 1999, Frankenberg and Thomas 2000, Strauss et al 2004, Strauss et al 2009, Strauss et al 2014), India Rural Economic and Demographic Survey (National Council of Applied Economic Research 1982), Japanese General Social Survey (Institute of Regional Studies at Osaka University of Commerce 2000–2010), United States Integrated Fertility Survey Series (Smock et al 1955–2002), Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (UNICEF 2006–2014), and World Fertility Survey (International Statistics Institute 1974–1981).…”