The ethnographic fieldwork portion of the project, interviews with women of reproductive age, and when available their partners and mothers, was initiated and completed in 2006. For each of 4 Italian cities (Padua, Bologna, Cagliari, and Naples) studied ethnographically by trained anthropologists, both a working-class and a middle-class neighborhood were identified. These 349 interviews have been transcribed without identifiers. All interviews have been coded and assigned 'attributes' (or nominative variables, such as gender, civil/religious status of marriage, etc.).
