New paper alert! Vital stats only capture individual births, not people’s reproductive career. For that, demographers use surveys that collect full fertility histories. But these fertility histories are less helpful if people don’t fully report all their births or report info inaccurately. 1/
In “Reliability of Repeated Measures of Retrospective Parity,” @karenguzzo.bsky.social et al show that 1 in 5 parents reported a different parity between survey waves, split equally btw “losing” & “finding” a birth. @uncpopcenter.bsky.social @cfdr-bgsu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...