Synopses & Reviews
In this report, the authors review the aims of the Fertility and Family Survey (FFS) project, including the implicit and explicit objectives of the project. They scrutinize comparability of the survey and sampling designs adopted by the various countries participating in the project, as well as comparability of the questionnaires they used to collect the FFS data. In addition, the authors draw lessons from the FFS effort for future similar international projects. The result is a comprehensive analysis of opportunities for cross-country comparative research that the FFS Standard Recode Files provide, but also of obstacles and caveats that comparative research based on this body of data must face and take into account.