National Fertility Survey, 1965|生育研究数据集|社会调查数据集

The 1965 National Fertility Survey was the first of three
surveys that succeeded the Growth of American Families surveys (1955
and 1960) aimed at examining marital fertility and family planning in
the United States. Currently married women were queried on the
following main topics: residence history, marital history, education,
income and employment, family background, religiosity, attitudes
toward contraception and sterilization, birth control pill use and
other methods of contraception, fecundity, family size, fertility
expectations and intentions, abortion, and world population growth.
Respondents were asked about their residence history, including what
state they grew up in, whether they had lived with both of their
parents at the age of 14, and whether they had spent any time living
on a farm. Respondents were also asked a series of questions about
their marital history. Specifically, they were asked about the
duration of their current marriage, whether their current marriage was
their first marriage, total number of times they had been married, how
previous marriages ended, length of engagement, and whether their
husband had children from a previous marriage. Respondents were asked
what was the highest grade of school that they had completed, whether
they had attended a co-ed college, and to give the same information
about their husbands. Respondents were asked about their 1965 income,
both individual and combined, their occupation, whether they had been
employed since marriage, if and when they stopped working, and whether
they were self-employed. They were also asked about their husband's
recent employment status. With respect to family background,
respondents were asked about their parents' and their husband's
parents' nationalities, education, religious preferences, and total
number children born alive to their mother and mother-in-law,
respectively. In addition, respondents were asked about their, and
their husband's, religious practices including their religious
preferences, whether they had ever received any Catholic education,
how religious-minded they perceived themselves to be, how often they
prayed at home, and how often they went to see a minister, rabbi, or
priest. Respondents were asked to give their opinions with respect to
contraception and sterilization. They were asked whether they
approved or disapproved of contraception in general, as well as
specific forms of contraception, whether information about birth
control should be available to married and unmarried couples, and
whether the federal government should support birth control programs
in the United States and in other countries. They were also asked
whether they approved or disapproved of sterilization operations for
men and women and whether they thought such a surgery would impair a
man's sexual ability. Respondents were asked about their own
knowledge and use of birth control pills. They were asked if they had
ever used birth control pills and when they first began using
them. They were then asked to give a detailed account of their use of
birth control pills between 1960 and 1965. Respondents were also asked
to explain when they discontinued use of birth control pills and what
the motivation was for doing so. Respondents were also asked about
their reproductive cycle, the most fertile days in their cycle, the
regularity of their cycle, and whether there were any known reasons
why they could not have or would have problems having children.
Respondents were asked about their ideal number of children, whether
they had their ideal number of children or if they really wanted fewer
children, as well as whether their husbands wanted more or less
children than they did. Respondents were then asked how many
additional births they expected, how many total births they expected,
when they expected their next child, and at what age they expected to
have their last child. Respondents were asked how they felt about
interrupting a pregnancy and whether they approved of abortion given
different circumstances such as if the pregnancy endangered the
woman's health, if the woman was not married, if the couple could not
afford another child, if the couple did not want another child, if the
woman thought the child would be deformed, or if the woman had been
raped. Respondents were also asked to share their opinions with
respect to world population growth. They were asked whether certain
countries' populations were growing faster or slower than the United
States, if they considered overall world population growth to be a
serious problem, and how serious the problem of population growth,
both in the United States and worldwide, was relative to other
problems such as poverty and crime. The survey also included a
thorough review of all of the respondents' pregnancies and their
outcomes.