National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle VI, 2002

<p>The Female Respondent file contains one record for each of the 7,643 women in the survey and includes most of the information from their interviews. The female Pregnancy (Interval) file contains one record for each of 13,593 pregnancies (both completed pregnancies and current pregnancies), and contains information about the characteristics of each pregnancy and method use and wantedness before each pregnancy. That is, in the Female Respondent file the unit of analysis is the woman, and in the Pregnancy file the unit of analysis is the pregnancy or pregnancy interval. The third data file, the Male Respondent file, contains one record for each of the 4,928 men interviewed, and includes most of the information from their interviews. In this file the male respondent is the unit of analysis. Interviewing for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Cycle 6, was conducted from January 2002 to March 2003 by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) under contract with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In-person interviews were conducted with 7,643 women 15-44 years of age and 4,928 men 15-44 years of age for a total sample size of 12,571.</p>