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Integrated Fertility Survey Series

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Name of repository
Integrated Fertility Survey Series
Additional name(s)
  • IFSS
Repository URL
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IFSS/
Subject(s)
Description
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Keyword(s)
Repository size
655 citing publications
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider

Dates

Started
2007
Offline
2020-09-30

Institutions (3)

Institution name
National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Additional name(s)
  • NICHD
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Population Studies Center
Additional name(s)
  • PSC
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
University of Michigan, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Additional name(s)
  • ICPSR
Institution identifier(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (2)

Policy name
User Guide
Policy name
Access and Dissemination

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (3)

Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • feeRequired

Data licenses (2)

Data license
other
Data license
Copyrights

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
yes
Enhanced publication
yes

Metadata standards (3)

Metadata standard
DataCite Metadata Schema
Metadata standard
DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)
Metadata standard
Dublin Core

Remarks

Remarks
The Integrated Fertility Survey Series (IFSS) was a project of the Population Studies aiming in view to produce a harmonized dataset of U.S. family and fertility surveys spanning five decades (1955-2002). IFSS integrates data from ten underlying component studies of family and fertility encompassing the Growth of American Families (GAF) in 1955 and 1960; National Fertility Surveys (NFS) in 1965 and 1970; as well as National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG) in 1973, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1995, and 2002. The first release contains harmonized sociodemographic variables for all respondents from all ten component studies, including those related to marital status, race and ethnicity, etc. Thus it provides access to researchers, educators, students, policy makers, and others with a data resource to examine issues related to families and fertility in the United States. Potential users can download original/ harmonized datasets (along with documentation) and numerous analytic tools make it possible to quickly and easily explore the data and obtain information about changes in behaviors and attitudes across time.
Entry date
2014-09-01
Last update
2025-04-15
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re3data.org: Integrated Fertility Survey Series; editing status 2025-04-15; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. https://doi.org/10.17616/R35K7V last accessed: 2026-07-10