Psychological Aspects of Fertility Behavior in Women, 1972-1975 (doi:10.7910/DVN/JPHTMV)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Psychological Aspects of Fertility Behavior in Women, 1972-1975

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JPHTMV

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2007-11-28

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Miller, Warren B., 1989, "Psychological Aspects of Fertility Behavior in Women, 1972-1975", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JPHTMV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:4:6,128:Y44os6PQxshnF5XDQqhXtA4EogkzVmJEIvI1EkdWQI4= [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Psychological Aspects of Fertility Behavior in Women, 1972-1975

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JPHTMV

Identification Number:

00027

Authoring Entity:

Miller, Warren B.

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Murray Research Archive

Date of Distribution:

1989

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JPHTMV

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences

Topic Classification:

mra murraydata, 501-1000, female, male, 18-22, 23-29, not asked, working, middle, 1, Mental health, Women

Abstract:

This longitudinal study examined the attitudes and personal characteristics relevant to reproduction and fertility in women. <br /><br /> A total of 967 women from the community of Stanford University who were unmarried, married and childless, or married with one child were interviewed and administered a series of questionnaires in 1972.<br /><br /> The interview schedule was highly structured, consisting primarily of precoded items dealing with both general background and issues related to marriage, reproduction, and contraception. The series of eight questionnaires were administered during the interview, and cover ed such areas as maternal attitudes, interest in traditional feminine roles, sexual and contraceptive attitudes, sexual and contraceptive knowledge, personal style (an inventory of psychological traits relevant to effective contraceptive use), as well as the Jackson Personality Research Form, a measure of personality dimensions. The husbands or boyfriends of the participants also completed a questionnaire assessing the same attitudes as those in the women's questionnaires. <br /><br /> Follow-up data were collected one, two, and three years after the initial interview session. The first two follow-ups were conducted by telephone. Similar to the initial interviews, the data collected at these times concerned attitudes and behaviors with respect to marriage and fertility (e.g. menstrual history, sexual history, and aspects of the decision-making process involved in marriage and starting a family). The third interview, conducted in 1975, included questions about similar topics and asked about childrearing practices as well. In addition, participants were administered a decision-making questionnaire about the status of their relationship with respect to their decisions about having children.

Time Period:

1970-1980

Date of Collection:

1972-1975

Country:

United States

Unit of Analysis:

individuals

Kind of Data:

field study, longitudinal

Methodology and Processing

Sampling Procedure:

quota sample

Mode of Data Collection:

questionnaire, interview

Sources Statement

Data Access

Archive Where Study was Originally Stored:

Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Harvard University

Availability Status:

Available

Special Permissions:

Submission of the following <a href= "http://www.murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study.

Restrictions:

I will use these data solely for the purposes stated in my application to use data, detailed in a written research proposal. I will honor all agreements and conditions made between the Contributor of the Data and the study participants, and between the Contributor of the Data and the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University, as specified in the Memorandum of Agreement.

Access Authority:

<a href="mailto:mra@help.hmdc.harvard.edu">Manager of Operations</a>, the Henry A. Murray Research Archive, Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Citation Requirement:

I will include a bibliographic citation acknowledging the use of these data in any publication or presentation in which these data are used. Such citations will appear in footnotes or in the reference section of any such manuscript. I understand the guideline in "How to Cite This Dataset" described in the Summary of this study.

Deposit Requirement:

Murray Research Archive will list my publication and manuscripts on the Archive website when I submit a bibliographic citation or title of the manuscript, and indicate the Henry A. Murray Research Archive data used. Doing this will also help Henry A. Murray Research Archive to provide funding agencies with essential information about use of archival resources, to fulfill requirements of some memoranda of agreement, and to promote the broader exchange of information about research activities.

Conditions:

<b> Follow-up is not allowed.</b>

Notes:

<div style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul style="list-style-type: decimal;" ><li> The Murray Archive (the Distributor) has granted me a revocable license to use this dataset solely for the purposes of conducting research, and the Distributor may terminate this license at any time and for any reason. </li> <li> I will use the dataset solely for statistical analysis and reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations, except when identification is authorized in writing by the Distributor. </li> <li>I will produce no links among the Distributor’s datasets or among the Distributor’s data and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations. </li> <li>I represent that neither I, nor anyone I know, has any prior knowledge of the possible identities of any study participants in any dataset that I am being licensed to use. </li> <li> I will not knowingly divulge any information that could be used to identify individual participants in the study, nor will I attempt to identify or contact any study participant, and I agree to use any precautions necessary to prevent such identification. </li> <li> I will make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. If I suspect that I might recognize or know a study participant, I will immediately inform the Distributor, and I will not use or retain a copy of data regarding that study participant. If these measures to resolve an identity disclosure are not sufficient, the Distributor may terminate my use of the dataset. </li> <li> I will not reproduce the dataset except as is necessary for my scholarly purposes. I will destroy the dataset upon the completion of my scholarly work with it. </li> <li> I will not share data from the dataset (in any form or by any means) with any third party, including other members of my research team, as I understand that all users of data must obtain the data directly from the Distributor. </li> <li> I will make appropriate acknowledgement of the contributor of the dataset as well as the Distributor in any manuscript or presentation (published or unpublished) using the citation standard documented here: <a href="http://thedata.org/citation"> http://thedata.org/citation</a> </li> <li> THE DISTRIBUTOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, BY OPERATION OF LAW OR OTHERWISE, REGARDING OR RELATING TO THE DATASET. </li> </ul> </div>

Submission of the following <a href= "https://murray.harvard.edu/application" target="_blank">Application For The Use Of Data</a> is required to access the data from this study. <br /><br /> <b> Follow-up is not allowed.</b>

Other Study Description Materials

File Description--f104155

File: 00027Miller-Fertility-C6363-Data.tab

  • Number of cases: 527

  • No. of variables per record: 2012

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:4:6,128:GqpZHwmuc6TItoc3nPtCnSq5uJiwwd7BuvndWrSvemM=

Data for Subject IDs C43C62-C6363 in Tab Delimited Format

File Description--f104154

File: 00027Miller-Fertility-F1QA7-Data.tab

  • Number of cases: 967

  • No. of variables per record: 2013

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

UNF:4:6,128:lF1A2SQhO25+71srXZHwy3pDqriLDJzzLMUaiSDdOBk=

Data for Subject IDs C6364-F1QA7 in Tab Delimited Format

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-C6363-Data.por

Text:

Data for Subject IDs C43C62-C6363 in SPSS Portable Format

Notes:

application/x-spss-por

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-Codebook.pdf

Text:

Description of coded data variables

Notes:

application/pdf

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-F1QA7-Data.por

Text:

Data for Subject IDs C6364-F1QA7 in SPSS Portable Format

Notes:

application/x-spss-por

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-Measures.pdf

Text:

Collection of blank measures used in the study

Notes:

application/pdf

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-MemoOfAgreement.pdf

Text:

Legal agreement between data depositor and Murray Archive

Notes:

application/pdf

Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

00027Miller-Fertility-StudyDescription.pdf

Text:

Overview: abstract, research methodology, publications, and other info.

Notes:

application/pdf