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Reports of relationship timing: missing data and couple agreement
Berichte über die zeitliche Planung von Beziehungen: fehlende Daten und die Absprachen von Paaren
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Abstract "In studying changes in family formation over time, social researchers and demographers have primarily relied on retrospective and prospective marital and cohabitation histories collected from surveys. With the increasing use of these types of retrospective questions in surveys, social researchers h... view more
"In studying changes in family formation over time, social researchers and demographers have primarily relied on retrospective and prospective marital and cohabitation histories collected from surveys. With the increasing use of these types of retrospective questions in surveys, social researchers have now begun to pay more attention to the quality of the data and the degree of accuracy with which respondents are able to remember past events. The purpose of this paper is to explore the incidence and demographic and socio-economic correlates of recall error and inaccuracy of reporting of marriage and cohabitation dates. In the first part the authors investigate the degree of precision with which dates are remembered using both descriptive and multivariate analysis. They then compare married and cohabiting partner's reports about when their relationship started in order to check the consistency of with which both partners date the same event." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
demography; demographic factors; population; population statistics; partner relationship; partnership; data; data capture; data quality
Classification
Basic Research and General Concepts of Demography, History of Demography
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 75-87
Journal
Survey Research Methods, 5 (2011) 2
ISSN
1864-3361
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications