Session 56:
Methodological Innovations in Fertility Research
Chair: Stephanie J. Ventura, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
Discussant: Susan F. Newcomer, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
The Estimation of Unwanted Fertility: Development of a New Method • John B. Casterline, Pennsylvania State University ; Laila El-Zeini, American University in Cairo
Implementation of the Revised OMB Race and Ethnicity Standards in the U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Births: Results and Data • Brady Eugene Hamilton, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
Reconstructing Brazilian Birth Histories Based on Census Data: A Comparative Analysis of Two Methodologies • Adriana Miranda-Ribeiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ; Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and University of Texas at Austin
A Bayesian Approach to Combining Population and Survey Data for Male Fertility Estimation • Michael Rendall, RAND ; Ryan Admiraal, University of Washington ; Mark S. Handcock, University of Washington ; Kara Joyner, Cornell University ; Elizabeth Peters, Cornell University ; Felicia T. Yang, Cornell University
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