Volume 32, No. 5, September/October 2000

TABLES

Adolescents' Reports of Reproductive Health
Education, 1988 and 1995

Table 1. Percentage of males aged 15-19 who received formal reproductive health education, by topic and year, according to demographic characteristics
Characteristic Any topic‡ AIDS How to say no to sex STDs Birth control How to put on a condom
1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1995
Total 92.5 97.7*** 72.8 96.5*** 58.0 74.5*** 81.1 85.2* 78.7 85.0** 58.0
Age at interview
15-17 93.0 97.7 81.3 96.1 63.0 74.9 80.1 84.3 79.5 83.2 58.0
18-19 91.6 97.8 59.2††† 97.2 50.2†† 73.9 82.9 86.7 77.4 88.1 58.1
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic black 93.7 98.5 79.2 98.0 61.6 77.4 80.2 86.9 78.8 86.4 65.9
Non-Hispanic white 92.3 97.7 70.3 96.1 57.7 74.2 82.0 85.2 79.2 84.2 55.9
Hispanic 92.9 96.8 78.7† 96.1 51.3 76.1 78.0 84.3 74.8 84.6 60.7†
School status at age 18-19
In school/has diploma 95.7 98.3 66.1 98.0 55.0 77.9 86.8 90.1 84.9 90.9 58.5
Dropout 71.6†† 95.1 24.6††† 93.0 26.3†† 53.9†† 63.7†† 69.5†† 39.7†† 73.8† 55.9
*Difference between 1988 and 1995 is statistically significant at p<=.05. **Difference between 1988 and 1995 is statistically significant at p<=.01.***Difference between 1988 and 1995 is statistically significant at p<=.001. †Difference across a characteristic within year is statistically significant at p<=.05. ††Difference across a characteristic within year is statistically significant at p<=.01. †††Difference across a characteristic within year is statistically significant at p<=.001. ‡Instruction about AIDS, STDs, birth control or how to say no to sex. Notes: All tests of significance were done using t-tests. Ns varied among categories; the highest Ns were 1,880 (for 1988) and 1,709 (for 1995). Respondents in 1988 were not asked about instruction in how to put on a condom.

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Table 2. Timing of reproductive health education among males aged 15-19, by topic and race/ethnicity, 1995 and 1998
Race/ethnicity Any topic‡ AIDS How to say no to sex STDs Birth control How to put on a condom
1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1988 1995 1995
MEDIAN AGE AT FIRST INSTRUCTION
Total 14 13 15 13 16 14 14 14 15 14 15
Non-Hispanic black 14 13 15 14 16 14 15 14 15 14 15
Non-Hispanic white 14 13 16 13 16 14 14 14 15 14 16
Hispanic 14 13 15 13 17 14 15 14 15 14 15
% WHO RECEIVED INSTRUCTION BEFORE FIRST SEX
Total 53.3 70.4*** 18.5 65.8*** 21.1 47.0*** 43.1 55.1*** 41.3 58.0*** 38.0
Non-Hispanic black 39.7 54.3 14.4 48.2 17.4 38.0 30.7 37.4 29.8 35.4 29.6
Non-Hispanic white 57.0 75.8 17.9 72.6 21.2 50.9 46.0 62.0 44.1 67.0 41.5
Hispanic 53.7†† 68.2††† 27.9† 64.2††† 21.6 46.2† 44.3†† 51.3††† 44.6†† 53.2††† 39.0††
***Difference between 1988 and 1995 is statistically significant at p<=.001. †Difference within year is statistically significant at p<=.05. ††Difference within year is statistically significant at p<=.01. †††Difference within year is statistically significant at p<=.001. ‡Instruction about AIDS, STDs, birth control or how to say no to sex. Notes: All tests of significance were done using t-tests. Respondents in 1988 were not asked about instruction in how to put on a condom. In three cases, medians are overstated because slightly fewer than 50% had received instruction by the next lowest age--49.3% of white males first received AIDS education by age 15; 49.0% of black males first received AIDS education by age 13; and 49.4% of white males received education about how to put on a condom by age 15.

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Table 3. Percentage of males aged 15-19 who reported having communicated with their parents about reproductive health, by topic, 1988 and 1995
Topic 1988 1995
Any 74.0 77.7
AIDS 51.4 55.6
STDs 41.1 42.7
Methods of birth control 44.6 43.8
What would happen if you got a girl pregnant 49.0 55.8**
**Difference between 1988 and 1995 was statistically significant at p<=.01.

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Table 4. Percentage of males aged 15-19 who reported communication with parents about reproductive health, by topic, according to demographic characteristics, 1995
Characteristic AIDS STDs Birth control What would happen if you
got a girl pregnant
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic black 58.4 56.6 48.5 69.0
Non-Hispanic white 56.9 41.1 46.0 51.4
Hispanic 52.8 40.3*** 39.0** 64.6***
Age
15-17 59.3 44.6 41.3 55.9
18-19 49.4* 39.4 48.1 55.7
Family structure at age 14
Two parents 54.3 38.1 41.9 52.3
Other 58.2 50.9*** 47.9* 63.0***
Ever had sexual intercourse
Yes 56.1 47.0 47.2 62.3
No 55.1 37.4*** 39.7** 47.8***
*Difference between characteristics within year is statistically significant at p<=.05. **Difference between characteristics within year is statistically significant at p<=.01. ***Difference between characteristics within year is statistically significant at p<=.001. Note: All tests of significance were done using t-tests.

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Table 5. Percentage of males and females aged 15-17 who ever received reproductive health education, and percentage of sexually experienced males and females aged 15-17 who received reproductive health education before first intercourse, by topic, 1995
Topic Ever Before first intercourse†
Males Females Males Females
(N=1,149) (N=815) (N= 576) (N=331)
How to prevent AIDS by practicing safe sex 92.0 93.5 52.7 70.2*
Methods of birth control 78.6 87.3* 48.6 71.3*
STDs 84.2 93.3* 50.6 73.8*
How to say no to sex 74.9 92.9* 43.0 72.0*
*Difference between sexes is statistically significant at p <=.001. †Among sexually experienced respondents. Notes: Ns are unweighted. All tests of significance were done using t-tests.

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