This proposal is for the planning and conduct of the next ten years of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. The awarded contract will cover a ten-year period, from September 2010 through May 2020, and include eight years of data collection and three data releases. Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, we shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey. It is anticipated that the NSFG will be done indefinitely as a continuous national survey, in which interviewing is done every year, producing approximately 5,000 in-person interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age, in English and Spanish. Over the life of this proposal, about 40,000 men and women will be interviewed in person in 8 years. This proposal also provides for the preparation and release of up to 3 public use data files.
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is part of a series of face-to-face surveys based on national probability samples that began in 1955. From 1955-1995, the surveys were limited to women of reproductive age. The University of Michigan is currently the contractor for the NSFG Cycle 6 and The 2006-10 NSFG (Cycle 7). Cycle 6 was conducted beginning in 2002 using a national sample of men and women 15-44; and ?The 2006-10 NSFG,? a continuous sample of men and women 15-44. In each NSFG, respondents have been interviewed in person in their own homes by trained professional female interviewers. In Cycles 6 and 7, the NSFG has been conducted using Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) and Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (Audio CASI). CAPI and Audio CASI is being used again in this proposal.
Funding:
Health and Human Services, Department of-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Funding Period:
09/24/2010 to 12/30/2020