Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys
Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys
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美国的堕胎报告： 对三项全国生育率调查的评估
DOI：
10.1007/s13524-020-00886-4
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发表时间：
2020-06-01
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3.5
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Zolna, Mia
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作者：
Lindberg, Laura;Kost, Kathryn;Zolna, Mia
尽管堕胎频繁发生，但它仍然是一种高度敏感、污名化和难以衡量的行为。我们目前估计堕胎漏报的三个最常用的国家生育率调查在美国：全国家庭增长调查，全国青年纵向调查1997年，和全国青少年到成人健康纵向研究。每次调查中报告的堕胎数量与从美国所有堕胎提供者的人口普查中获得的外部堕胎数量进行了比较，并对每个数据来源的可比受访者年龄和时期进行了调整。我们研究了调查设计因素的影响，包括调查模式，抽样框架，和召回的长度，流产漏报。我们使用蒙特卡罗模拟来估计流产和其他变量之间关系的潜在测量偏差。在美国，对堕胎的低报影响了研究堕胎的能力，因此，几乎所有与怀孕有关的经验都是使用国家生育率调查。
Despite its frequency, abortion remains a highly sensitive, stigmatized, and difficult-to-measure behavior. We present estimates of abortion underreporting for three of the most commonly used national fertility surveys in the United States: the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Numbers of abortions reported in each survey were compared with external abortion counts obtained from a census of all U.S. abortion providers, with adjustments for comparable respondent ages and periods of each data source. We examined the influence of survey design factors, including survey mode, sampling frame, and length of recall, on abortion underreporting. We used Monte Carlo simulations to estimate potential measurement biases in relationships between abortion and other variables. Underreporting of abortion in the United States compromises the ability to study abortion-and, consequently, almost any pregnancy-related experience-using national fertility surveys.