A Web-Based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Event history calendars (EHCs) are frequently used in social measurement to capture important information about the time ordering of events in people's lives, and enable inference about the relationships of the events with other outcomes of interest. To date, EHCs have primarily been designed for face-to-face or telephone survey interviewing, and few calendar tools have been developed for more private, self-administered modes of data collection. Web surveys offer benefits in terms of both self-administration, which can reduce social desirability bias, and timeliness. We developed and tested a web application enabling the calendar-based measurement of contraceptive method use histories. These measures provide valuable information for researchers studying family planning and fertility behavi

SUBMITTER: West BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8966976 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature