Lolagene C Coombs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lolagene C Coombs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lolagene C |
| FAMILY NAME | Coombs |
| SIGNATURE | COOMBS L C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Do husbands and wives agree? Fertility attitudes and later behavior
Familial Values in a Developing Society
Changes in attitudes and values about the family during a decade of rapid economic development are examined for data from Taiwan, 1965–76. Attitudes toward family formation norms and preferences, toward personal control of the family building process, and toward traditional familial values are documented, assessed against modernizing social strata, and implications for fertility transition theory discussed. The pace of change has been marked, but…
Reproductive goals and achieved fertility
A measure of underlying family size preference obtained for a sample of Detroit married women in 1962 is related to their fertility over a 15-year follow-up period. The data represent completed fertility. The I-scale preference measure used differs from the conventional single-valued statement of number of children wanted; it is a more fine-grained measure reflecting the respondent’s utility for children as evidenced by her entire preference orde…
Some roots of preference
This paper examines some of the connecting links between modernization in a developing society, particularly urbanization and increased education for women, and preferences for number of children. Using 1973 Taiwan data, preferences for smaller families are found to be consistently related to modern attitudes and behavior in the three domains examined: intrafamilial husband-wife role relationships, extrafamilial activities of the wife, and famili…
Underlying Family-Size Preferences and Reproductive Behavior
Although about half the married women in a US survey said they wanted one or two children, underlying family-size preferences indicate a potential for many to have larger families. Using a measure of family-size preference that probes beyond single-valued statements, it is found that identical stated family-size desires or intentions may have different meanings for different people. Differences are systematically related to the stage in family bu…
Prospective Fertility and Underlying Preferences
The predictive capabilities of underlying preferences for number and sex of children (IN and IS scale values) for future fertility are examined by using longitudinal data on Taiwanese wives interviewed in a fertility survey in 1973. Preference scale information obtained at that time is related to their reproductive histories during the 4 year follow-up period 1973-7 by using information about births secured from the Taiwan Population Register. Th…
Husband-wife agreement about reproductive goals
Data from Malaysia on the reproductive goals of husbands and wives are analyzed to determine level of agreement, using new scale measures on preferences for number and sex of children as well as the conventional measure of desired number of children. The level of agreement between husband and wife varies considerably depending on the focus of analysis and the measure of agreement used. Overall aggregate agreement of men and women is high but lowe…
Family composition preferences in a developing culture
As fertility comes increasingly under voluntary control in a developing society, it can be argued that individual desires or preferences about children will become more salient and more significant for eventual fertility. Hence, the study of preferences is increasingly important as contraceptive use is extended and results in decreasing the number of unwanted births.(1) Further changes in fertility then depend on changes in preferences. The assum…
Levels of Reliability in Fertility Survey Data
The exhaust of power is a crucial issue for ITER and next step fusion devices [1]. Predictions for divertor operation are heavily dependent on edge plasma simulations typically utilizing a fluid plasma code in combination with a Monte Carlo code for neutral species. Therefore it is important to validate the codes using well-diagnosed experimental setups. The Pilot-PSI device offers a high density (n e ~ 10 19 – 10 21 m -3 ), low temperature (T e …
Don't Know
What to do with "Don't Know" responses in survey data is dependent upon a prior understanding of their causes. A proximity analysis of the "Don't Know" responses alone yields the same scale as does a scalogram analysis of the definite responses alone indicating response uncertainty as one source of the response. The quality of the scales is improved by eliminating ambiguous items, indicating stimulus ambiguity as another source. The data used are…
Preference scales for number and sex of Children
A measurement—theoretical approach to the scaling of preferences for number of children and sex composition is developed to provide a feasible field procedure for studying factors affecting size bias and sex bias and for studying the effects of such biases on realized family size. The measures, reflecting the individual's utility for number and sex of children, go beyond global stated preferences and are sensitive to deviations from a first choic…
The Measurement of Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Fertility
A new method for measuring preferences for number of children is presented and related to the subsequent fertility of a panel of married women over a five-year period. TheI-scales, developed on the basis of unfolding theory, reflect the individual’s utility function for children. They differ from global stated preferences and are more fine-grained measures, sensitive to variations from a first choice. Scales obtained at an initial interview were …
Trends in Fertility, Family Size Preferences, and Practice of Family Planning
Problems of Contamination in Panel Surveys
To check the possibility of data contamination through reinterview effects interviews of an independent sample of 500 women were compared to interviews of 2600 women who had been interviewed in 1967 and again reinterviewed in 1970. Both KAP samples found 3.9 to be the ideal number of children and 2.2 for the ideal number of sons. 95% of both groups approved of birth control much or very much. The differences found in the 2 groups were in the know…
Trends in Family Size Preferences and Practice of Family Planning
3 island-wide surveys of all married women of childbearing years (22-39 years) were conducted in 1965 1967 and 1970 by the Taiwan Provencial Committee on Family Planning. The third survey involved reinterview of 50% of those interviewed in 1967 and an additional sample representing those married 1967-1970. Each survey attempted to provide data to analyze trends in family size and family planning from information obtained on fertility history desi…
Pre-Marital Pregnancy, Childspacing and Later Economic Achievement
Pre-marital pregnancy, childspacing, and later economic achievement
The nature of the first-birth interval has a persistent, if diminishing relation to the family's economic position at successive observations in a longitudinal study of Detroit. The pre-maritally pregnant (PMP) were at a disadvantage at either the first (1961) observation or the fourth (1966) as compared with other married couples with either a short or long first birth interval (short-spacers and long-spacers). The PMP disadvantage was much grea…
Correlates of Marital Dissolution in a Prospective Fertility Study
Couples whose marriages dissolved during a five year period of a longitudinal fertility study of family growth patterns in the Detroit area show marked differences compared to those who remained married. Data are based on intensive home interviews with a cross-section sample of 1304 women at important family life stages, taken prior to the time of marital disruption. Couples divorced or permanently separated in the subsequent five year period wer…
Premarital Pregnancy and Status Before and After Marriage
Premaritally pregnant couples (PMP)-about 25 percent of those who marry in the Detroit area-are not disproportionately from low status backgrounds. Nevertheless, they are at a substantial economic and educational disadvantage at various stages of married life, greater than that of couples having a child nine to eleven months after marriage. The young marriage age of PMP couples only partly explains their disadvantage, which is persistent even amo…
Inferences about abortion from foetal mortality data
In a longitudinal fertility study in Detroit the evidence indicates that the foetal mortality rate in the prospective periods are better reported than in retrospective parts of the fertility histories. While the data do not specifically differentiate between induced abortions and other foetal deaths, the foetal death rates vary in relation to other social and demographic characteristics of the couples in such a way as make induced abortion a cons…
Childspacing and Family Economic Position
It was found that the timing of births after marriage had a strong and consistent relationship to the economic position of a sample of white Detroit couples who had recently had a 1st 2nd or 4th birth in that the position was substantially better the longer the interval to 1st or to last birth. Those wives already pregnant with their 1st child at the time of marriage were particularly disadvantaged. The 20% of the sample who were premaritally pre…
Economic considerations in family growth decisions
Examination of the fertility patterns of a sample of white Detroit couples at selected stages of the family life cycle indicates that, in a large American metropolis, family income is more closely related to the time when a family is formed and has its children than to the number of children it expects to have. In a longitudinal study, current income is strongly related to the timing of demographic events-the age at marriage, whether pre-maritall…
Stability and change in expectations about family size
En tres erdreuisias realizadas en el transcurso de dos años entre mujeres de Detroit que habían tenido su primero, su segundo o su cuarto nacimiento, se encontró una notable estabilidad en las respuestas acerca del número de hijos esperados. En muchos casos individuales hubo pequeñios cambios, pero los efectos se compensaron. Se encontró que varias características sociales, especialmente la religión y la ocupación; se relacionaban con la intensid…
Use of Telephone Interviews in a Longitudinal Fertility Study
Journal Article USE OF TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS IN A LONGITUDINAL FERTILITY STUDY Get access LOLAGENE COOMBS, LOLAGENE COOMBS ††Lolagene Coombs is a Research Associate and Ronald Freedman is Director of the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. In the longer substantive analysis of the fertility study, Dr. David Goldberg is a co-investigator Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD FREEDMAN RONALD F…
The Economic Factor in the Roosevelt Elections
It seems to be generaally agreed that Franklin D. Roosevelt is very unpopular with the wealthier groups in society and that he is held to be a very warm friend of the poor. Indeed, it is sometimes asserted that no president since Jefferson has so divided the voters along economic lines as has Roosevelt. Popular opinion on this subject, as on many others, is likely to be exaggerated. In any case, it is well to check by measurement the idea that th…
The Measurement of Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Fertility
A new method for measuring preferences for number of children is presented and related to the subsequent fertility of a panel of married women over a five-year period. TheI-scales, developed on the basis of unfolding theory, reflect the individual’s utility function for children. They differ from global stated preferences and are more fine-grained measures, sensitive to variations from a first choice. Scales obtained at an initial interview were …
Childspacing and Family Economic Position
It was found that the timing of births after marriage had a strong and consistent relationship to the economic position of a sample of white Detroit couples who had recently had a 1st 2nd or 4th birth in that the position was substantially better the longer the interval to 1st or to last birth. Those wives already pregnant with their 1st child at the time of marriage were particularly disadvantaged. The 20% of the sample who were premaritally pre…
Stability and change in expectations about family size
En tres erdreuisias realizadas en el transcurso de dos años entre mujeres de Detroit que habían tenido su primero, su segundo o su cuarto nacimiento, se encontró una notable estabilidad en las respuestas acerca del número de hijos esperados. En muchos casos individuales hubo pequeñios cambios, pero los efectos se compensaron. Se encontró que varias características sociales, especialmente la religión y la ocupación; se relacionaban con la intensid…
Do husbands and wives agree? Fertility attitudes and later behavior
Preference scales for number and sex of Children
A measurement—theoretical approach to the scaling of preferences for number of children and sex composition is developed to provide a feasible field procedure for studying factors affecting size bias and sex bias and for studying the effects of such biases on realized family size. The measures, reflecting the individual's utility for number and sex of children, go beyond global stated preferences and are sensitive to deviations from a first choic…
Don't Know
What to do with "Don't Know" responses in survey data is dependent upon a prior understanding of their causes. A proximity analysis of the "Don't Know" responses alone yields the same scale as does a scalogram analysis of the definite responses alone indicating response uncertainty as one source of the response. The quality of the scales is improved by eliminating ambiguous items, indicating stimulus ambiguity as another source. The data used are…
Reproductive goals and achieved fertility
A measure of underlying family size preference obtained for a sample of Detroit married women in 1962 is related to their fertility over a 15-year follow-up period. The data represent completed fertility. The I-scale preference measure used differs from the conventional single-valued statement of number of children wanted; it is a more fine-grained measure reflecting the respondent’s utility for children as evidenced by her entire preference orde…
Husband-wife agreement about reproductive goals
Data from Malaysia on the reproductive goals of husbands and wives are analyzed to determine level of agreement, using new scale measures on preferences for number and sex of children as well as the conventional measure of desired number of children. The level of agreement between husband and wife varies considerably depending on the focus of analysis and the measure of agreement used. Overall aggregate agreement of men and women is high but lowe…
Correlates of Marital Dissolution in a Prospective Fertility Study
Couples whose marriages dissolved during a five year period of a longitudinal fertility study of family growth patterns in the Detroit area show marked differences compared to those who remained married. Data are based on intensive home interviews with a cross-section sample of 1304 women at important family life stages, taken prior to the time of marital disruption. Couples divorced or permanently separated in the subsequent five year period wer…
Pre-marital pregnancy, childspacing, and later economic achievement
The nature of the first-birth interval has a persistent, if diminishing relation to the family's economic position at successive observations in a longitudinal study of Detroit. The pre-maritally pregnant (PMP) were at a disadvantage at either the first (1961) observation or the fourth (1966) as compared with other married couples with either a short or long first birth interval (short-spacers and long-spacers). The PMP disadvantage was much grea…
Economic considerations in family growth decisions
Examination of the fertility patterns of a sample of white Detroit couples at selected stages of the family life cycle indicates that, in a large American metropolis, family income is more closely related to the time when a family is formed and has its children than to the number of children it expects to have. In a longitudinal study, current income is strongly related to the timing of demographic events-the age at marriage, whether pre-maritall…
Underlying Family-Size Preferences and Reproductive Behavior
Although about half the married women in a US survey said they wanted one or two children, underlying family-size preferences indicate a potential for many to have larger families. Using a measure of family-size preference that probes beyond single-valued statements, it is found that identical stated family-size desires or intentions may have different meanings for different people. Differences are systematically related to the stage in family bu…
The Economic Factor in the Roosevelt Elections
It seems to be generaally agreed that Franklin D. Roosevelt is very unpopular with the wealthier groups in society and that he is held to be a very warm friend of the poor. Indeed, it is sometimes asserted that no president since Jefferson has so divided the voters along economic lines as has Roosevelt. Popular opinion on this subject, as on many others, is likely to be exaggerated. In any case, it is well to check by measurement the idea that th…
Family composition preferences in a developing culture
As fertility comes increasingly under voluntary control in a developing society, it can be argued that individual desires or preferences about children will become more salient and more significant for eventual fertility. Hence, the study of preferences is increasingly important as contraceptive use is extended and results in decreasing the number of unwanted births.(1) Further changes in fertility then depend on changes in preferences. The assum…
Premarital Pregnancy and Status Before and After Marriage
Premaritally pregnant couples (PMP)-about 25 percent of those who marry in the Detroit area-are not disproportionately from low status backgrounds. Nevertheless, they are at a substantial economic and educational disadvantage at various stages of married life, greater than that of couples having a child nine to eleven months after marriage. The young marriage age of PMP couples only partly explains their disadvantage, which is persistent even amo…
Use of Telephone Interviews in a Longitudinal Fertility Study
Journal Article USE OF TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS IN A LONGITUDINAL FERTILITY STUDY Get access LOLAGENE COOMBS, LOLAGENE COOMBS ††Lolagene Coombs is a Research Associate and Ronald Freedman is Director of the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. In the longer substantive analysis of the fertility study, Dr. David Goldberg is a co-investigator Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD FREEDMAN RONALD F…
Trends in Fertility, Family Size Preferences, and Practice of Family Planning
Prospective Fertility and Underlying Preferences
The predictive capabilities of underlying preferences for number and sex of children (IN and IS scale values) for future fertility are examined by using longitudinal data on Taiwanese wives interviewed in a fertility survey in 1973. Preference scale information obtained at that time is related to their reproductive histories during the 4 year follow-up period 1973-7 by using information about births secured from the Taiwan Population Register. Th…
Trends in Family Size Preferences and Practice of Family Planning
3 island-wide surveys of all married women of childbearing years (22-39 years) were conducted in 1965 1967 and 1970 by the Taiwan Provencial Committee on Family Planning. The third survey involved reinterview of 50% of those interviewed in 1967 and an additional sample representing those married 1967-1970. Each survey attempted to provide data to analyze trends in family size and family planning from information obtained on fertility history desi…
Familial Values in a Developing Society
Changes in attitudes and values about the family during a decade of rapid economic development are examined for data from Taiwan, 1965–76. Attitudes toward family formation norms and preferences, toward personal control of the family building process, and toward traditional familial values are documented, assessed against modernizing social strata, and implications for fertility transition theory discussed. The pace of change has been marked, but…
Levels of Reliability in Fertility Survey Data
The exhaust of power is a crucial issue for ITER and next step fusion devices [1]. Predictions for divertor operation are heavily dependent on edge plasma simulations typically utilizing a fluid plasma code in combination with a Monte Carlo code for neutral species. Therefore it is important to validate the codes using well-diagnosed experimental setups. The Pilot-PSI device offers a high density (n e ~ 10 19 – 10 21 m -3 ), low temperature (T e …
Some roots of preference
This paper examines some of the connecting links between modernization in a developing society, particularly urbanization and increased education for women, and preferences for number of children. Using 1973 Taiwan data, preferences for smaller families are found to be consistently related to modern attitudes and behavior in the three domains examined: intrafamilial husband-wife role relationships, extrafamilial activities of the wife, and famili…
Inferences about abortion from foetal mortality data
In a longitudinal fertility study in Detroit the evidence indicates that the foetal mortality rate in the prospective periods are better reported than in retrospective parts of the fertility histories. While the data do not specifically differentiate between induced abortions and other foetal deaths, the foetal death rates vary in relation to other social and demographic characteristics of the couples in such a way as make induced abortion a cons…
Problems of Contamination in Panel Surveys
To check the possibility of data contamination through reinterview effects interviews of an independent sample of 500 women were compared to interviews of 2600 women who had been interviewed in 1967 and again reinterviewed in 1970. Both KAP samples found 3.9 to be the ideal number of children and 2.2 for the ideal number of sons. 95% of both groups approved of birth control much or very much. The differences found in the 2 groups were in the know…
The Economic Factor in the Roosevelt Elections
It seems to be generaally agreed that Franklin D. Roosevelt is very unpopular with the wealthier groups in society and that he is held to be a very warm friend of the poor. Indeed, it is sometimes asserted that no president since Jefferson has so divided the voters along economic lines as has Roosevelt. Popular opinion on this subject, as on many others, is likely to be exaggerated. In any case, it is well to check by measurement the idea that th…
An Economic Interpretation of the Social Characteristics of Cities
The economic factor has long been recognized as an important one, and many attempts have been made measure its influence. In this investigation of two groups of small cities in the United States in 1930, economic level is found to be correlated with the rate of growth, the age and racial composition of the population, the sex ratio, with birth and death rates, with opportunities for education as indicated by teachers' salaries, with magazine circ…
Use of Telephone Interviews in a Longitudinal Fertility Study
Journal Article USE OF TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS IN A LONGITUDINAL FERTILITY STUDY Get access LOLAGENE COOMBS, LOLAGENE COOMBS ††Lolagene Coombs is a Research Associate and Ronald Freedman is Director of the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan. In the longer substantive analysis of the fertility study, Dr. David Goldberg is a co-investigator Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD FREEDMAN RONALD F…
Stability and change in expectations about family size
En tres erdreuisias realizadas en el transcurso de dos años entre mujeres de Detroit que habían tenido su primero, su segundo o su cuarto nacimiento, se encontró una notable estabilidad en las respuestas acerca del número de hijos esperados. En muchos casos individuales hubo pequeñios cambios, pero los efectos se compensaron. Se encontró que varias características sociales, especialmente la religión y la ocupación; se relacionaban con la intensid…
Childspacing and Family Economic Position
It was found that the timing of births after marriage had a strong and consistent relationship to the economic position of a sample of white Detroit couples who had recently had a 1st 2nd or 4th birth in that the position was substantially better the longer the interval to 1st or to last birth. Those wives already pregnant with their 1st child at the time of marriage were particularly disadvantaged. The 20% of the sample who were premaritally pre…
Economic considerations in family growth decisions
Examination of the fertility patterns of a sample of white Detroit couples at selected stages of the family life cycle indicates that, in a large American metropolis, family income is more closely related to the time when a family is formed and has its children than to the number of children it expects to have. In a longitudinal study, current income is strongly related to the timing of demographic events-the age at marriage, whether pre-maritall…
Inferences about abortion from foetal mortality data
In a longitudinal fertility study in Detroit the evidence indicates that the foetal mortality rate in the prospective periods are better reported than in retrospective parts of the fertility histories. While the data do not specifically differentiate between induced abortions and other foetal deaths, the foetal death rates vary in relation to other social and demographic characteristics of the couples in such a way as make induced abortion a cons…
Pre-marital pregnancy, childspacing, and later economic achievement
The nature of the first-birth interval has a persistent, if diminishing relation to the family's economic position at successive observations in a longitudinal study of Detroit. The pre-maritally pregnant (PMP) were at a disadvantage at either the first (1961) observation or the fourth (1966) as compared with other married couples with either a short or long first birth interval (short-spacers and long-spacers). The PMP disadvantage was much grea…
Correlates of Marital Dissolution in a Prospective Fertility Study
Couples whose marriages dissolved during a five year period of a longitudinal fertility study of family growth patterns in the Detroit area show marked differences compared to those who remained married. Data are based on intensive home interviews with a cross-section sample of 1304 women at important family life stages, taken prior to the time of marital disruption. Couples divorced or permanently separated in the subsequent five year period wer…
Premarital Pregnancy and Status Before and After Marriage
Premaritally pregnant couples (PMP)-about 25 percent of those who marry in the Detroit area-are not disproportionately from low status backgrounds. Nevertheless, they are at a substantial economic and educational disadvantage at various stages of married life, greater than that of couples having a child nine to eleven months after marriage. The young marriage age of PMP couples only partly explains their disadvantage, which is persistent even amo…
Pre-Marital Pregnancy, Childspacing and Later Economic Achievement
Trends in Family Size Preferences and Practice of Family Planning
3 island-wide surveys of all married women of childbearing years (22-39 years) were conducted in 1965 1967 and 1970 by the Taiwan Provencial Committee on Family Planning. The third survey involved reinterview of 50% of those interviewed in 1967 and an additional sample representing those married 1967-1970. Each survey attempted to provide data to analyze trends in family size and family planning from information obtained on fertility history desi…
Problems of Contamination in Panel Surveys
To check the possibility of data contamination through reinterview effects interviews of an independent sample of 500 women were compared to interviews of 2600 women who had been interviewed in 1967 and again reinterviewed in 1970. Both KAP samples found 3.9 to be the ideal number of children and 2.2 for the ideal number of sons. 95% of both groups approved of birth control much or very much. The differences found in the 2 groups were in the know…
The Measurement of Family Size Preferences and Subsequent Fertility
A new method for measuring preferences for number of children is presented and related to the subsequent fertility of a panel of married women over a five-year period. TheI-scales, developed on the basis of unfolding theory, reflect the individual’s utility function for children. They differ from global stated preferences and are more fine-grained measures, sensitive to variations from a first choice. Scales obtained at an initial interview were …
Trends in Fertility, Family Size Preferences, and Practice of Family Planning
Preference scales for number and sex of Children
A measurement—theoretical approach to the scaling of preferences for number of children and sex composition is developed to provide a feasible field procedure for studying factors affecting size bias and sex bias and for studying the effects of such biases on realized family size. The measures, reflecting the individual's utility for number and sex of children, go beyond global stated preferences and are sensitive to deviations from a first choic…
Don't Know
What to do with "Don't Know" responses in survey data is dependent upon a prior understanding of their causes. A proximity analysis of the "Don't Know" responses alone yields the same scale as does a scalogram analysis of the definite responses alone indicating response uncertainty as one source of the response. The quality of the scales is improved by eliminating ambiguous items, indicating stimulus ambiguity as another source. The data used are…
Levels of Reliability in Fertility Survey Data
The exhaust of power is a crucial issue for ITER and next step fusion devices [1]. Predictions for divertor operation are heavily dependent on edge plasma simulations typically utilizing a fluid plasma code in combination with a Monte Carlo code for neutral species. Therefore it is important to validate the codes using well-diagnosed experimental setups. The Pilot-PSI device offers a high density (n e ~ 10 19 – 10 21 m -3 ), low temperature (T e …
Husband-wife agreement about reproductive goals
Data from Malaysia on the reproductive goals of husbands and wives are analyzed to determine level of agreement, using new scale measures on preferences for number and sex of children as well as the conventional measure of desired number of children. The level of agreement between husband and wife varies considerably depending on the focus of analysis and the measure of agreement used. Overall aggregate agreement of men and women is high but lowe…
Family composition preferences in a developing culture
As fertility comes increasingly under voluntary control in a developing society, it can be argued that individual desires or preferences about children will become more salient and more significant for eventual fertility. Hence, the study of preferences is increasingly important as contraceptive use is extended and results in decreasing the number of unwanted births.(1) Further changes in fertility then depend on changes in preferences. The assum…
Reproductive goals and achieved fertility
A measure of underlying family size preference obtained for a sample of Detroit married women in 1962 is related to their fertility over a 15-year follow-up period. The data represent completed fertility. The I-scale preference measure used differs from the conventional single-valued statement of number of children wanted; it is a more fine-grained measure reflecting the respondent’s utility for children as evidenced by her entire preference orde…
Some roots of preference
This paper examines some of the connecting links between modernization in a developing society, particularly urbanization and increased education for women, and preferences for number of children. Using 1973 Taiwan data, preferences for smaller families are found to be consistently related to modern attitudes and behavior in the three domains examined: intrafamilial husband-wife role relationships, extrafamilial activities of the wife, and famili…
Underlying Family-Size Preferences and Reproductive Behavior
Although about half the married women in a US survey said they wanted one or two children, underlying family-size preferences indicate a potential for many to have larger families. Using a measure of family-size preference that probes beyond single-valued statements, it is found that identical stated family-size desires or intentions may have different meanings for different people. Differences are systematically related to the stage in family bu…
Prospective Fertility and Underlying Preferences
The predictive capabilities of underlying preferences for number and sex of children (IN and IS scale values) for future fertility are examined by using longitudinal data on Taiwanese wives interviewed in a fertility survey in 1973. Preference scale information obtained at that time is related to their reproductive histories during the 4 year follow-up period 1973-7 by using information about births secured from the Taiwan Population Register. Th…
Do husbands and wives agree? Fertility attitudes and later behavior
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