Pennsylvania Study of Family Planning Discontinuation: Visit File, 1983-85

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Pennsylvania Study of Family Planning Discontinuation: Visit File, 1983-85

Investigators: Roberta Herceg-Baron

Publication Date: March 23, 2016

Pennsylvania Study of Family Planning Discontinuation: Visit File, 1983-85

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The second in a series of family planning studies (see DAAPPP Set Nos. 73, 75, and 76), the units of observation of this study are the family planning clinic visits of individual women on a visit by visit basis. The visit file includes data on counseling procedures, contraception practices, medical assistance coverage, referral sources, and childbearing histories of patients. Conducted from October 1983 through June 1985, patient visit abstracts (PVAs) from Automated Health Records of Philadelphia formed the bases of the study. The clinics involved are from two provider networks: the Maternal Family Health (MFH) representing a collection of counties in northeastern and northcentral Pennsylvania, and the Family Planning Council (FPC), representing southeastern Pennsylvania. Young women were oversampled; the stratified samples were subsampled to produce a representative (self-weighting) sample of 5% overall. For MFH, 22,909 visits by 4,990 women were included; for the FPC, 45,423 visits by 13,362 women were obtained. Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

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