Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Statistical Appendices only (1987) / Chapter Skim
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2. Contraceptive Use Among Adolescents
2. Contraceptive Use Among Adolescents
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adolescents. Most of the available data are on females, but data from the National Surveys of Young Women and Men (NSYW/M)
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Data are f rom the National Surveys of Young Women (NSYW) for 1976 and 1979 and f rom the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
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(NSFG) Among all women aged 15 to 44 in 1982, slightly less than one-half used a contraceptive method at first intercourse.
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Of the women who used a method at f irst intercourse, th planners were more likely than those who did not plan to use a female prescription method while male planners were more likely than those who did not plan to use a male contraceptive method. Black women were more likely than other young men and women to rely on a female prescription method .
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5 4 . 6 None 51.8 47.9 64.0 Users only: Female prescription 17.4 15.4 29.6 Female nonpresc r ipt ion 8.
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Among the users, black females were more likely to have used a female prescription method and less likely to have used withdrawal than white women.
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The data are from the 1979 National Survey of Young Women (NSYW) for metropolitan areas only.
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were more likely than older teenagers to delay more than 12 months after first intercourse to begin using contraceptives. This was true regardless of race, but black teenagers were especially likely to delay using contraception.
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. Women exposed to the risk of an unintended pregnancy includes women practicing contraception and those not practicing contraception who had sexual intercourse in the last three months and were not pregnant, post partum, seeking pregnancy or non-contraceptively sterile.
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Among teenage women aged 15 to 19, 69 percent of the exposed white women and 64 percent of exposed black women used a method. Women aged 15 to 19 who were exposed to an unintended pregnancy and who were using contraception were more likely to use the pill then older women, 71 percent of black teens and 60 percent of white teens, compared to 55 and 48 percent of older women respectively.
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. S ingh, H ispanic Adolescents and Contraception: An Analyses of Data f rom the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the APHA, 1985.
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This proportion is slightly higher than for non-hispanic blacks and slightly lower than for non-Hispanic whites and others, but differences are very small. H ispanic women aged 15 to 19 exposed to the risk of an unintended pregnancy and using contraception were as likely as non-Hispanic whites and others to use the pill and more likely than non-Hispanic blacks and non-Hispanic whites and others to use the IUD or sterilization.
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White women at all ages were more likely than black women to perceive the time of greatest pregnancy risk.
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2Standardized by age, contraceptive intention, poverty ratio income and parity. 3Standardized by age, contraceptive intention, race and parity.
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Failure rates are the number of pregnant ies occur ing per 1,000 women using a given contraceptive method. These data ind icate substant ial d if ferences in contracept ive-use failure rates by user characteristics.
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