The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men's and women's health. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and others to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies of families, fertility, and health. Years included: 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2006-2010; Data use agreement at time of file download:

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on pregnancies and births, marriage and cohabitation, infertility, use of contraception, family life, and general and reproductive health. Restricted-use files include contextual data, restricted-use analytic variables, paradata, and interviewer observation data. Geographic information can be used to link NSFG to external data files. Estimates cannot be made for specific geographic areas. Contents of restricted-use files varies over time.

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is designed and administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS/CDC). Since the NSFG began in 1973, there have been nine data release files. The purpose of the survey is to produce reliable national estimates of: - Factors affecting pregnancy, including sexual activity, contraceptive use, and infertility; - The medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and childbirth; - Factors affecting marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and adoption; - Adoption and caring for nonbiological children - Father involvement behaviors, and - Men's and women's attitudes about sex, childbearing, and marriage. The survey contains key religion variables that may relate to these topics. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other research and policy organizations to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies on the topics listed above. ("https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_userguide_maintext.pdf#page=6" Target="_blank">NSFG 2013-2015 User's Guide: Main Text) Each wave of the NSFG survey contains a Female Respondent Survey, Male Respondent Survey, and a Pregnancy Survey. This is the Female Respondent Survey.

'The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is designed and administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS/CDC)....Since the NSFG began in 1973, there have been ten data release files. 'The purpose of the survey is to produce reliable national estimates of: - Factors affecting pregnancy, including sexual activity, contraceptive use, and infertility; - The medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and childbirth; - Factors affecting marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and family building; - Adoption and caring for nonbiological children - Father involvement with their children; - Use of sexual and reproductive health services; and - Attitudes about sex, childbearing, and marriage.'...The survey contains key religion variables that may relate to these topics. 'The survey results are used by the U.S. DHHS [Department of Health and Human Services] and other research and policy organizations to help to understand the use of health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies on the topics listed above, among others.' ("https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nsfg/NSFG_2015_2017_UserGuide_MainText.pdf" Target="_blank">NSFG 2015-2017 User's Guide: Main Text) Each wave of the NSFG survey contains a Female Respondent Survey, Male Respondent Survey, and a Pregnancy Survey. This is the Male Respondent Survey.

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is designed and administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS/CDC). Since the NSFG began in 1973, there have been nine data release files. The purpose of the survey is to produce reliable national estimates of: - Factors affecting pregnancy, including sexual activity, contraceptive use, and infertility; - The medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and childbirth; - Factors affecting marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and adoption; - Adoption and caring for nonbiological children - Father involvement behaviors, and - Men's and women's attitudes about sex, childbearing, and marriage. The survey contains key religion variables that may relate to these topics. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other research and policy organizations to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies on the topics listed above. ("https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_userguide_maintext.pdf#page=6" Target="_blank">NSFG 2013-2015 User's Guide: Main Text) Each wave of the NSFG survey contains a Female Respondent Survey, Male Respondent Survey, and a Pregnancy Survey. This is the Pregnancy Survey.

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on pregnancies and births, marriage and cohabitation, infertility, use of contraception, family life, and general and reproductive health. Public-use files include a female respondent, male respondent, and female pregnancy file.

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) is designed and administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (DHHS/CDC). Since the NSFG began in 1973, there have been nine data release files. The purpose of the survey is to produce reliable national estimates of: - Factors affecting pregnancy, including sexual activity, contraceptive use, and infertility; - The medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and childbirth; - Factors affecting marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and adoption; - Adoption and caring for nonbiological children - Father involvement behaviors, and - Men's and women's attitudes about sex, childbearing, and marriage. The survey contains key religion variables that may relate to these topics. The survey results are used by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other research and policy organizations to plan health services and health education programs, and to do statistical studies on the topics listed above. ("https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nsfg/nsfg_2013_2015_userguide_maintext.pdf#page=6" Target="_blank">NSFG 2013-2015 User's Guide: Main Text) Each wave of the NSFG survey contains a Female Respondent Survey, Male Respondent Survey, and a Pregnancy Survey. This is the Male Respondent Survey.

The Female Respondent file contains one record for each of the 7,643 women in the survey and includes most of the information from their interviews. The female Pregnancy (Interval) file contains one record for each of 13,593 pregnancies (both completed pregnancies and current pregnancies), and contains information about the characteristics of each pregnancy and method use and wantedness before each pregnancy. That is, in the Female Respondent file the unit of analysis is the woman, and in the Pregnancy file the unit of analysis is the pregnancy or pregnancy interval. The third data file, the Male Respondent file, contains one record for each of the 4,928 men interviewed, and includes most of the information from their interviews. In this file the male respondent is the unit of analysis. Interviewing for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Cycle 6, was conducted from January 2002 to March 2003 by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) under contract with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). In-person interviews were conducted with 7,643 women 15-44 years of age and 4,928 men 15-44 years of age for a total sample size of 12,571.