The correspondence of data gathered from husband and wife: Implications for family planning studies

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Demographic information, nondemographic information, and attitudinal data were gathered from Filipino and Caucasian married couples in an effort to understand cross‐cultural differences in the antecedents of contraceptive behavior. While the correspondence of demographic data gathered from husband vs. wife was high for both ethnic groups studied, the correspondence of nondemographic information and of attitudinal data was moderate at best, especially for Filipinos. Consideration of husband data accounted for discrepancies between wife's motivation for fertility control and couple contraceptive behavior and, for Filipinos, enhanced the predictability of contraceptive behavior over that achievable by looking at wife data alone. These findings point to the importance of collecting and analyzing data from husbands if one is to understand fertility‐related behavior, particularly in those cultures where couple communication is low and marital relationships are characterized by husband dominance.

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