Study Abbey et al. (1994): study US 1988

Public

Infertile couples and matched controls, followed 3 years, USA 1988-1990

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 496

Non Response

20%

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
at T1 face-to-face, at T2 and T3 by telephone

Correlate

Authors's Label

Got a child

Our Classification

Remarks

Initialially all respondents were childless.73(42%) of the couples, diagnosed as infertile, became parents by the final interview. 59 of them though the wife's pregnancy, whereas 14 couples adopted an infant. Control group based on non-probability purposive sample of couples who desired a child and had no known fertility problems, matched for demographic profile T1: 1988, T2: 1989, T3: 1990

Distribution

N women=174; N men=174

Operationalization

1 did not get child since T1
2 got child since T1
Assessed at T3

Observed Relation with Happiness