Secondary respondent data are underutilized because researchers avoid using these data in the presence of substantial missing data. The authors reviewed, evaluated, and tested solutions to this problem. Five strategies of dealing with missing partner data were reviewed: (a) complete case analysis, (b) inverse probability weighting, (c) correction…

The hypothesis that education affects attitudes toward family size, not directly but through the crucial intervening variables of attitude toward type of conjugal family and attitude toward type of marital relationship, is supported by the data. (Author)