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November 7, 2009
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American Fertility Surveys
Our collection includes ten American fertility surveys covering a
35-year period:
The ten surveys are all available for internal use at OPR only.
Please follow the links to learn more about each dataset.
These surveys have unique historical value; they
- cover a period of 35 years and 64 cohorts of women
born from 1910 (the
1965
National Fertility Survey) to 1973 (the
1988
National Survey of Family Growth).
- provide a record of family
formation through the Great Depression, the years of World War II,
the baby boom and the decline of fertility to present low levels,
- record the history of the development of
questionnaires and the development of methodology for the analysis of
fertility data; and
- reflect the changing
interests of demographers, from worried birth projections in the
1950's to present
concerns about the health and welfare of children, sexually
transmitted diseases, and the social consequences of marital disruption
and single parenthood.
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