Husband—wife inconsistencies in contraceptive use responses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7980092
AutoresM A Koenig (0000-0002-2186-6087), Michael Koenig (Johns Hopkins University), George B Simmons (University of Michigan), B D Misra (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Ano1984
Volume38
Fascículo2
Páginas281-298
Data de publicação1984-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1984.10410290
OpenAlexW2075220250
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas11

The reliability of responses in fertility surveys to questions on topics such as contraceptive use has long been a subject of concern. This paper explores one type of response reliability — the consistency between spouses in their responses to questions on use of contraception — using survey and case study data from a sample of rural Indian husbands and wives. The findings suggest that response inconsistencies between husband and wife appear to result primarily from wives underreporting the actual use of contraception, and that such underreporting may in turn be traced to the subordinate status of women within the family in this society in conjunction with familial and normative values which are opposed to contraception. Response inconsistencies, and the manner in which they are resolved, are shown to have important implications for both overall estimates of contraceptive prevalence as well as for household-level analyses of fertility behaviour

Consistency (knowledge bases) · Developmental psychology · Family planning · Fertility · Internal consistency · Normative · Political science · Population · Psychometrics · Reliability (semiconductor) · Research methodology · Sociology · Wife · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology