The PRI Library has received announcement of a National Survey of Family Growth workshop at the PAA meeting in New Orleans on April 17, 2008 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

The PRI Library has received announcement of a summer program workshop to be held July 24-25, 2008.

The PRI Library has received announcement of a call for papers for the 2008 National Research Conference on the National Survey of Family Growth, to be held October 16-17, 2008 at the NCHS located in Hyattsville, MD.

The PRI Library had received announcement of two Associate Service Fellowship positions with the NSFG in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Married and Unmarried Births to Men, a new ASPE Research Brief, uses data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine patterns of fatherhood.

A Supplemental file to the Cycle 6 NSFG public use file based on household roster variables is now available on Sodapop.

This report (PDF), from the NSFG, describes how the sample was designed, shows response rates for various subgroups of men and women, describes how the sample weights were computed to make national estimates possible, shows how missing data were imputed for a limited set of key variables, and describes the proper ways to estimate sampling errors from the NSFG.

The CDC has issued a comprehensive report on fertility, contraception, and fatherhood among men ages 15-44. The report is based on data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, which includes men for the first time. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the National Survey of Family Growth can be downloaded from the NCHS Web site in PDF format. See also related news coverage from USA Today: New study looks at men, fatherhood (May 31, 2006).