The accuracy of husbands' and wives' reports of the frequency of marital coitus

Abstract This article presents an account of a study of the accuracy of husbands' and wives' independent reports of the frequency of their marital coitus. As part of a larger investigation of marriage the men and women studied filled out questionnaires which, among other matters, asked them to were obtained from the couple members during the early years of marriage and again in their middle years of marriage.