National Survey of Fertility Barriers

DESCRIPTION: The National Survey of Fertility Barriers (NSFB) is a nationally representative telephone survey of women age 25-45 that was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD). The sample was selected to be representative of all female adults living in households with a land line telephone in the contiguous United States. Minorities are over-sampled. The data were collected by the Survey Research Center at The Pennsylvania State University and the Bureau of Sociological Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The first wave of the survey was conducted between 2004 and 2007 and includes completed interviews with 4,712 women and a subsample –936 of their partners. The second wave of data collection—the three year follow up was conducted by The Bureau of Sociological Research and was scheduled for completion for the end of 2009. The main aim of the NSFB study is to explore emotional and behavioral responses to reproductive barriers among women specifically biomedical fertility barriers. The study is designed to allow the examination of differences between women with biomedical barriers who do and do not seek treatment as well as the comparison of women with biomedical barriers to those who are childless by choice or circumstance. These barriers include sub-fecundity, but also repeated miscarriages, health conditions that preclude childbearing, and sterilization regret.

CODEBOOK:http://sodapop.pop.psu.edu/codebooks/nsfb/wave1/Appendix%20C_Main%20Frequencies.pdf