Kerry L D MacQuarrie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5992975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry L D MacQuarrie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry L D |
| FAMILY NAME | MacQuarrie |
| SIGNATURE | MACQUARRIE K L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2855-9370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How It Was and How It Should Be
Contraceptive prevalence among unmarried women—calculated from the response to a version of the question— “Are you or your partner currently doing something or using any method to delay or avoid getting pregnant?” is most accurately measured among those who report sexual recency within the previous four weeks. This approach, long adopted by The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS), has recently been adopted by groups such as FP2030 and Tr…
Demographic and Fertility Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi
Examining women's reproductive experiences over time reveals a more dynamic view of women's behaviors and needs than current status measures alone. This study uses sequence and cluster analyses, which are designed for identifying patterns and subgroups in longitudinal data. We apply these methods to contraceptive calendar data in Burundi to identify discrete clusters of women based on contraceptive and pregnancy behaviors over the past 5 years. W…
Whose Fertility Preferences Matter? Women, Husbands, In-laws, and Abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India
Two Sons and a Daughter
This article examines how the sex composition of women's current children at the start of a pregnancy interval influences both fertility desires and the full range of reproductive actions women may take to realize them, including temporary contraception, abortion and sterilization, in Madhya Pradesh, India, where popular notions of ideal family size and sex composition are dominated by son preference. The analysis is conducted using a dataset of …
Methodological Innovation in Studying Abortion in Developing Countries
This article describes the development and implementation of a mixed methods data collection method designed to provide high-quality data on the circumstances surrounding abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India. Data collection took place between 2000 and 2002, beginning with a qualitative phase and culminating in a large-scale, representative survey. The survey itself melded a unique narrative interviewing technique with quantitative survey techniques…
Methodological Innovation in Studying Abortion in Developing Countries
This article describes the development and implementation of a mixed methods data collection method designed to provide high-quality data on the circumstances surrounding abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India. Data collection took place between 2000 and 2002, beginning with a qualitative phase and culminating in a large-scale, representative survey. The survey itself melded a unique narrative interviewing technique with quantitative survey techniques…
Demographic and Fertility Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi
Examining women's reproductive experiences over time reveals a more dynamic view of women's behaviors and needs than current status measures alone. This study uses sequence and cluster analyses, which are designed for identifying patterns and subgroups in longitudinal data. We apply these methods to contraceptive calendar data in Burundi to identify discrete clusters of women based on contraceptive and pregnancy behaviors over the past 5 years. W…
How It Was and How It Should Be
Contraceptive prevalence among unmarried women—calculated from the response to a version of the question— “Are you or your partner currently doing something or using any method to delay or avoid getting pregnant?” is most accurately measured among those who report sexual recency within the previous four weeks. This approach, long adopted by The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS), has recently been adopted by groups such as FP2030 and Tr…
Whose Fertility Preferences Matter? Women, Husbands, In-laws, and Abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India
Methodological Innovation in Studying Abortion in Developing Countries
This article describes the development and implementation of a mixed methods data collection method designed to provide high-quality data on the circumstances surrounding abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India. Data collection took place between 2000 and 2002, beginning with a qualitative phase and culminating in a large-scale, representative survey. The survey itself melded a unique narrative interviewing technique with quantitative survey techniques…
Two Sons and a Daughter
This article examines how the sex composition of women's current children at the start of a pregnancy interval influences both fertility desires and the full range of reproductive actions women may take to realize them, including temporary contraception, abortion and sterilization, in Madhya Pradesh, India, where popular notions of ideal family size and sex composition are dominated by son preference. The analysis is conducted using a dataset of …
Whose Fertility Preferences Matter? Women, Husbands, In-laws, and Abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India
Demographic and Fertility Characteristics of Contraceptive Clusters in Burundi
Examining women's reproductive experiences over time reveals a more dynamic view of women's behaviors and needs than current status measures alone. This study uses sequence and cluster analyses, which are designed for identifying patterns and subgroups in longitudinal data. We apply these methods to contraceptive calendar data in Burundi to identify discrete clusters of women based on contraceptive and pregnancy behaviors over the past 5 years. W…
How It Was and How It Should Be
Contraceptive prevalence among unmarried women—calculated from the response to a version of the question— “Are you or your partner currently doing something or using any method to delay or avoid getting pregnant?” is most accurately measured among those who report sexual recency within the previous four weeks. This approach, long adopted by The Demographic and Health Surveys Program (DHS), has recently been adopted by groups such as FP2030 and Tr…
Demography (5 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Pregnancy (3 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (3 works) · Abortion (2 works)