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Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015
This paper draws on individual-level data from the National Study of Family Growth (NSFG) to identify likely underreporters of abortion and miscarriage and examine their characteristics. The NSFG asks about abortion and miscarriage twice, once in the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) pa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35921280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271288 |
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description | This paper draws on individual-level data from the National Study of Family Growth (NSFG) to identify likely underreporters of abortion and miscarriage and examine their characteristics. The NSFG asks about abortion and miscarriage twice, once in the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) part of the questionnaire and the other in the audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) part. We used two different methods to identify likely underreporters of abortion and miscarriage: direct comparison of answers obtained from CAPI and ACASI and latent class models. The two methods produce very similar results. Although miscarriages are just as prone to underreporting as abortions, characteristics of women underreporting abortion differ somewhat from those misreporting miscarriages. Underreporters of abortions tended to be older, poorer, less likely to be Hispanic or Black, and more likely to have no religion. They also reported more traditional attitudes toward sexual behavior. By contrast, underreporters of miscarriage also tended to be older, poorer, and more likely to be Hispanic or Black, but were also more likely to have children in the household, had fewer pregnancies, and held less traditional attitudes toward marriage. |
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spelling | pubmed-93486802022-08-04 Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 Yan, Ting Tourangeau, Roger PLoS One Research Article This paper draws on individual-level data from the National Study of Family Growth (NSFG) to identify likely underreporters of abortion and miscarriage and examine their characteristics. The NSFG asks about abortion and miscarriage twice, once in the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) part of the questionnaire and the other in the audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) part. We used two different methods to identify likely underreporters of abortion and miscarriage: direct comparison of answers obtained from CAPI and ACASI and latent class models. The two methods produce very similar results. Although miscarriages are just as prone to underreporting as abortions, characteristics of women underreporting abortion differ somewhat from those misreporting miscarriages. Underreporters of abortions tended to be older, poorer, less likely to be Hispanic or Black, and more likely to have no religion. They also reported more traditional attitudes toward sexual behavior. By contrast, underreporters of miscarriage also tended to be older, poorer, and more likely to be Hispanic or Black, but were also more likely to have children in the household, had fewer pregnancies, and held less traditional attitudes toward marriage. Public Library of Science 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9348680/ /pubmed/35921280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271288 Text en © 2022 Yan, Tourangeau https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yan, Ting Tourangeau, Roger Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title | Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title_full | Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title_fullStr | Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title_full_unstemmed | Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title_short | Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
title_sort | detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015 |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35921280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271288 |
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