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Effects of Organized Family Planning Programs on U.S. Adolescent Fertility, 1970-1975

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Title Effects of Organized Family Planning Programs on U.S. Adolescent Fertility, 1970-1975
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PGSDDE
 
Creator Jacqueline Darroch Forrest
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This study was designed to understand the extent to which the increase in enrollment by teenagers in federally-funded family planning clinics was responsible for the decline in adolescent childbearing and pregnancy rates in the United States. In the original study, areal multivariate analyses were performed using various models. Analyses were performed partialling out the effects of other factors affecting fertility, such as poverty, status, education, and urbanization. The file presented here includes only the county level data, the smallest geographic unit at which much of the data was available. In the original study, these data were aggregated to form three different kinds of statistical analysis units (SAU) that were large enough for analysis. The statistical analysis units can be reconstructed using the codes from this data file.
 
Date 1984
 
Contributor University of California. Los Angeles. Social Science Data Archive
 
Type Census aggregations
 
Source Population data for 1970 came primarily from a special county-level tabulation from the 1970 Census of Population and Housing; Population estimates for 1975 were based on adjusted tabulations of the 1970 Census of Population and Housing, and county-level 1975 population estimates produced by the Bureau of the Census. Data on the number of organized family planning provider sites in each county came from the Alan Guttmacher Institute. For 1975, data on the number of teenage patients came from th
e Alan Guttmacher Institute; abortion measures came from the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The number of obstetricians and gynecologists was obtained from unpublished data from the American Medical Association. The number of general practitioners was obtained from Physician Distribution and Medical Licensure in the United States, 1975. Unemployment data were taken from the County and City Data Book; Census data was used to obtain data on education, poverty level, and marriage. Birth rates were calculated through use of natality vital statistics data produced by the National Center for Health Statistics.