Table 1:

Survey timing & data availability

		Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
		(2003 – 2005)	(2005 – 2007)	(2011 – 2014)
Analysis Sample	# Respondents	351	277	283
	Median Age	19	23	28
	Data Availability
	Desires (xt)	✓	✓	✓
	Recall ($x_{t-1\mid t}^R$)	-	✓	-
	Living Children (ft)	✓	✓	✓
Extended Sample	# Female Respondents	2,343	2,506	2,575
	Median Age	18	22	26
	Data Availability
	Desires (xt)	-	✓	✓
	Recall ($x_{t-1\mid t}^R$)	-	✓	-
	Living Children (ft)	✓	✓	✓

Notes: This table shows the timing of each KLPS survey round used in our analysis, the number of respondents interviewed and their median age as well as availability of key variables used in this paper. Respondents are from the Kenyan Life Panel Survey (KLPS), a longitudinal dataset tracking more than 7,500 individuals who lived in Busia District, Kenya in 1998. The analysis sample consists of 351 women who were interviewed in great detail about reproductive desires in KLPS Round 1 (see the text for more details). 277 and 283 of these women were re-surveyed in Rounds 2 and 3, respectively, and 239 were interviewed during all survey rounds. The extended sample consists of all individuals interviewed in KLPS Rounds 1, 2 or 3 with women and men constituting equal shares of the sample. Expectations with respect to future fertility desires and behavior were only asked in Round 1, and recall was only a component in Round 2. We focus on individuals in the analysis sample in our analysis, because we have data on reproductive desires of these individuals from Round 1 on, such that we can track changes for all survey rounds and compare recall of past desires from Round 2 to actual desires in Round 1. Throughout the paper, we use survey weights that adjust for the two-stage nature of KLPS tracking; for more details on the tracking strategy, see Baird et al (2016) and Baird, Hamory, and Miguel (2008).