Plan and Operation of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth The design, plan, and implementation of the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is described in this recent report released from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Detailed discussions on how the survey was planned and designed and how the data were collected, edited, and processed for public use are included. The NSFG is a national survey of women 15-44 years of age whose main objective is to provide national estimates of factors affecting pregnancy and birth rates and the health of women and infants. NCHS has conducted the NSFG since 1973. A major change to the 1995 survey (from previous surveys) was the conversion from paper and pencil interviewing to Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) to improve the quality, consistency, and timeliness of the data. Another change was the addition of event histories of the respondent's work, education, family background, cohabitation, and sexual partners for lending explanatory power to the survey. These two changes made the 1995 program work very well. Interviewers for the 1995 NSFG completed a total of 10,847 interviews with women 15-44 years of age, for a response rate of 79 percent. Keywords: survey methodology, computer-assisted interviewing, interviewer training
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