Reported childlessness: a further look at cohort estimates based on survey time-series data
Reported childlessness: a further look at cohort estimates based on survey time-series data
The paper investigates further the over-reporting of childlessness in the General Household Survey in recent years and finds that it is due either to respondent error or to respondent fatigue. The bias can be corrected for to some extent by using information on own children in household. Revised fertility histories incorporating own children identified from household information give period estimates of total fertility that are in close agreement with national vital registration statistics, unlike those based on original fertility histories of recent years. Misreporting in fertility histories dates primarily from the reorganization of the GHS at the 2000-01 round, and particularly from 2003-04, when the option of laptop self-completion was introduced for reporting demographic histories
ESRC Centre for Population Change
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Beaujouan, Eva
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Murphy, Michael
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1 January 2011
Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire
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Beaujouan, Eva
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Murphy, Michael
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Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire, Beaujouan, Eva and Murphy, Michael
(2011)
Reported childlessness: a further look at cohort estimates based on survey time-series data
(Centre for Population Change Working Paper Series, 11)
Southampton, GB.
ESRC Centre for Population Change
19pp.
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The paper investigates further the over-reporting of childlessness in the General Household Survey in recent years and finds that it is due either to respondent error or to respondent fatigue. The bias can be corrected for to some extent by using information on own children in household. Revised fertility histories incorporating own children identified from household information give period estimates of total fertility that are in close agreement with national vital registration statistics, unlike those based on original fertility histories of recent years. Misreporting in fertility histories dates primarily from the reorganization of the GHS at the 2000-01 round, and particularly from 2003-04, when the option of laptop self-completion was introduced for reporting demographic histories
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Published date: 1 January 2011
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Social Statistics & Demography, Social Sciences, Centre for Population Change
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Local EPrints ID: 172229
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/172229
ISSN: 2042-4116
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Máire Ní Bhrolcháin
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Eva Beaujouan
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Michael Murphy
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