[How consistent are personal data?  Analysis of statements on the planning status of pregnancies].
The consistency of responses on the planning status of births is analyzed using data from a longitudinal fertility survey being carried out by the Demographic Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.  Interviews were conducted in 1978 and 1981 with a sample of two marriage cohorts; in both sets of interviews a question was asked concerning the reaction to a pregnancy at the time the woman heard about it.  "After linking the data for the pregnancies leading to first or second births, a consistency index suggested by Ryder and Westoff...was applied which distinguishes between random and nonrandom consistency.  For the first births a proportion of 54.4% identical answers yields a consistency index of 38.0...; for second births a proportion of 53.7% identical answers results in [a] consistency index of 30.1...."  Differential consistency is also analyzed according to selected socioeconomic and demographic variables as well as a variable measuring the correspondence of husband's and wife's desired family sizes in the opinion of the husband.  (summary in ENG)
D001290:Attitude; D001317:Austria; D001519:Behavior; D001723:Birth Rate; D002676:Child, Unwanted; D003625:Data Collection; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005298:Fertility; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008393:Marriage; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011247:Pregnancy; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted; D011584:Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Attitude; Austria; Behavior; Comparative Studies; Data Collection; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Error Sources; Europe; Evaluation; Evaluation Report; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Size; Family Size, Ideal; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Fertility Surveys; Husband-wife Comparisons; Longitudinal Studies; Measurement; Population; Population Dynamics; Pregnancy, Planned; Pregnancy, Unplanned; Pregnancy, Unwanted; Psychological Factors; Reliability; Reproductive Behavior; Research Methodology; Sampling Studies; Socioeconomic Factors; Studies; Surveys; Unwanted Births; Western Europe
Wie konsistent sind personliche Angaben?  Analyse von Aussagen zur Gewolltheit von Schwangerschaften