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Death and Desirability: Retrospective Reporting of Unintended Pregnancy After a Child’s Death

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Title
Death and Desirability: Retrospective Reporting of Unintended Pregnancy After a Child’s Death
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Demography, May 2016
DOI 10.1007/s13524-016-0475-9
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Emily Smith-Greenaway, Christie Sennott

Abstract

Social scientists have long debated how to best measure pregnancy intentions. The standard measure relies on mothers' retrospective reports of their intentions at the time of conception. Because women have already given birth at the time of this report, the resulting children's health-including their vital status-may influence their mothers' responses. We hypothesize that women are less likely to report that deceased children were from unintended pregnancies, which may explain why some cross-sectional studies have shown that children from unintended pregnancies have higher survival, despite the fact that longitudinal studies have shown the opposite is true. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from 31 sub-Saharan African countries, we confirm that mothers are less likely to report that deceased children resulted from unintended pregnancies compared with surviving children. However, the opposite is true for unhealthy children: mothers more commonly report that unhealthy children were from unintended pregnancies compared with healthier children. The results suggest that mothers (1) revise their recall of intentions after the traumatic experience of child death and/or (2) alter their reports in the face-to-face interview. The study challenges the reliability of retrospective reports of pregnancy intentions in high-mortality settings and thus also our current knowledge of the levels and consequences of unintended pregnancies in these contexts.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 81 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 17%
Researcher 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 25 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 7%
Psychology 5 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 25 30%
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