Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Statistical Appendices only (1987) / Chapter Skim
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3. Pregnancy Among Adolescents
3. Pregnancy Among Adolescents
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The number of adolescent pregnancies is estimated by combining data on births available from the National Vital Statistics with data on abortions available from the Center for Disease Control and the Alan Guttmacher Institute and with an estimated proportion of miscarriages. These data are presented in Table 3.1.
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However, the decline in the birth rates for women aged 15 to 19 is also due to the increase in the abortion rate. The abortion rate for women aged 15 to 19 increased from an estimated 44 per 1,000 sexually active lS-to-l9 year old women in 1960 to 93 per 1,000 sexually active women aged 15 to l9 in 1984.
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A-66 / 418 TABLE 3.2 Pregnancies, Abortions, Miscarriages And Live Births By Marital Status To Women Aged 15 To 19, 1982 Category Number Percent Total pregnancies to teens 15-19 1,077,124 100.0 Abortions 418, 740 39.6 Miscarriages 144,626 13.4 Live births 513,758 47.0 Conceived post-maritally 145, 907 13.4 Conce ived premar itally, born post-maritally 118, 678 10.9 Born premaritally 249,173 22. 8 Source: See Table 4.1 for Source of Pregnancy, Abortion, Miscarriage and Live Birth Figures; O'Connell and Rogers 1984, der ived f rom the 1982 Current Population Survey.
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Thus, for every 10 adolescent pregnancies there were approximately 4 abortions, 1 miscarriage, and 5 births. Of all pregnancies resulting in live births to women aged 15 to 19, 13.4 percent were conceived post-maritally, 10.9 percent were conceived premaritally and born post-maritally, and 22.8 percent were born premaritally.
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A-68 / 420 TABLE 3.3 Proportion Of Women Ever-Pregnant Before Age 18 and Age 20, 1976 And 1981 Percentage Experiencing a First Pregnancy by Age Year and Race 18 20 1976 Total 23.7 41.1 19 81 Total 23.9 43.5 White 20.5 39.7 Black 40. 7 63.1 Source: Calculated by Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, 1986; see Table 3.1 f or sou rce of data .
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A-69 / 421 TABLE 3.3 Table 3.3 presents the proportion of all women ever experiencing a first pregnancy by age 18 and by age 20. In 1976, 23.7 percent of all women had a first pregnancy by age 18, 41.1 percent by age 20.
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A-70 / 42 2 TABLE 3 .4 Percentage of Premar itally Sexually Act ive Women Aged 15-19 Who Ever Experienced A Premarital First Pregnancy, By Contraceptive-Use Status* And Race, 1979 And 1976, Metropolitan U.S.
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Among sexually active women aged 15 to 19 who reported that they always used some form of contraception, 13.5 percent ever had a premarital pregnancy in 1979. Of women who said they used a contraceptive method at first intercourse but not consistently, 31 percent had a premarital pregnancy.
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A-73 / 425 TABLE 3.5 The estimated cumulative percent of metropolitan-area females aged 15 to 19 with a premarital first pregnancy by duration since first intercourse, race and contraceptive use status in 1979 is presented in Table 3.5. Within 24 months after first intercourse, 36 percent, or more than 1 out of every 3 premaritally sexually active teenagers, became pregnant.
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Among teenagers who had an unintended premarital pregnancy the per cent were using contraceptives were more than three times higher in 1979 than in 1971, 32 compared to 9 percent. Even so, black females who had an unintended premar ital pregnancy were less likely to have used contraception than white females, especially in 1976 and 1979.
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