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Ideal Family Size: A Comparative Study of Numerical and Non-numerical Fertility Desires of Women in Two sub-Saharan African Countries (English)

Publication ID: WP7
Publication Date: December 1993
Language: English
Country(s): Ghana , Nigeria
Document Type: Working Papers
Publication Topic(s): Family Planning , Fertility and Fertility Preferences
Author(s): David O. Olaleye and Macro International Inc. Calverton, Maryland, USA

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Abstract: Two significant issues raised by non-numeric responses to the ideal family size question are examined in this study. The first is whether women who report non-numeric responses are indeed different from women who give numerical answers in ways that are likley to be related to their fertility and family planning behaviors and , thus, whether omitting them from the analyses biases the results. The second is whether the failure to provide numeric responses is a failure of survey technique, that is, would either better survey questions or in-depth interviewing in fact elicit numeric responses.