Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP
Nonresident Fathers and Formal Child Support: Evidence from the CPS, NSFG, and SIPP
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非居民父亲和正式子女抚养费：来自 CPS、NSFG 和 SIPP 的证据
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发表时间：
2013
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通讯作者：
Susan Brown
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作者：
J. Stykes;Wendy D. Manning;Susan Brown
背景资料：自20世纪80年代初以来，研究人员一直担心，由于抽样和问卷调查的影响，调查低估了非居民父亲。因此，联邦数据收集工作将资源集中在监护母亲而不是非居民父亲的报告上。来自三个国家的最新数据为研究人员提供了一个估计非居民父亲患病率的机会。目的：我们的目标是提供美国当代非居民父亲身份和正式儿童抚养费的估计，并检查这些估计数在各次调查中的一致性。研究方法：我们使用三项具有全国代表性的调查：当前人口调查（CPS），收入和计划参与调查（SIPP）和全国家庭成长调查（NSFG），对报告有非居民子女的男性（15-44岁）的比例以及报告在过去一年中提供了一些正式支持的非居民父亲的比例进行了描述性研究。结果如下：NSFG对非居民父亲身份的估计较高，而CPS和SIPP对非居民父亲身份的估计较低。按种族/族裔和教育程度分列的非居民父亲人口构成的调查结果也各不相同。结果进一步表明，在NSFG中确定的非居民父亲不太可能提供正式的支持，并且在提供正式支持方面发现的种族/民族和教育差异在调查中各不相同。结论：三项具有全国代表性的美国调查对非居民父亲人口以及这些父亲提供正式子女抚养费的程度进行了实质性不同的估计。最终，这项研究表明，我们缺乏对美国非居民父亲身份的可靠估计。
Background: Since the beginning of the 1980s, researchers have been raising concerns that surveys underestimated nonresident fatherhood due to sampling and questionnaire effects. Consequently, federal data collection efforts focused resources on reports from custodial mothers rather than from nonresident fathers. Recent data from three national sources provide researchers with an opportunity to estimate the prevalence of nonresident fathers. Objective: Our goals were to provide estimates of contemporary nonresident fatherhood and of formal child support payments in the U.S., and to examine the consistency of these estimates across surveys. Methods: We presented descriptive results for the proportion of men (aged 15-44) who reported having a nonresident child, and the proportion of nonresident fathers who reported having provided some formal support in the last year, using three nationally representative surveys: the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Results: The NSFG produced higher estimates of nonresident fatherhood, whereas both the CPS and the SIPP produced lower estimates of nonresident fatherhood. The findings on the composition of the nonresident father population by race/ethnicity and educational attainment also differed across the surveys. The results further demonstrated that the nonresident fathers identified in the NSFG were less likely to have been providing formal support, and that the racial/ethnic and educational differences found in the provision of formal support varied across the surveys. Conclusions: Three nationally representative U.S. surveys produced substantively different estimates of the nonresident father population, and of the extent to which these fathers were providing formal child support. Ultimately, this study illustrates that we lack robust estimates of nonresident fatherhood in the U.S.
DOI：
10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00828.x
发表时间：
2011
期刊：
Journal of marriage and the family
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作者：
Turney,Kristin;Carlson,MarciaJ
通讯作者：
Carlson,MarciaJ