Husbands' vs. Wives' responses to a fertility survey

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A fertility survey of 547 couples was carried out in Dacca, East Pakistan in 1963. Both husbands and wives were interviewed. Therefore, it was possible to study the degree and nature of differences in husbands' and wives' responses and, on some topics, to infer which spouse tended to give the more accurate responses. Husbands reported more use of contraception and seemed to give more precise reports on time elapsed since marriage and since last live birth. Wives reported more completely about the existence of pregnancies, especially unsuccessful pregnancies during the preceding year. These and other results cause the authors to question the convention of interviewing wives rather than husbands in fertility surveys.

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