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The paradox of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India: An artefact of survey design?

• Ensuring data quality in large scale surveys is challenging. • The trend and pattern of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India is puzzling. • Interview privacy setting and interviewer effect can partially explain the anomaly. • Large scale surveys impose severe demands on sur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Desai, Sonalde, Pramanik, Santanu, Chouhan, Bijay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9547282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36217310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101256
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Sumario:• Ensuring data quality in large scale surveys is challenging. • The trend and pattern of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India is puzzling. • Interview privacy setting and interviewer effect can partially explain the anomaly. • Large scale surveys impose severe demands on survey supervision and ability to ensure privacy. • Innovative ways of data collection for sensitive issues can be explored for proper reporting.