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Conferences

Teenage Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use: An Update

Keynote Speaker: C. DeLores Tucker

Friday, May 1, 1998
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

The 1995 National Survey of Family Growth and National Survey of Adolescent Males report a 9% decline in sexual activity among 15- to 19-year old females since 1990, and an 8% decline among males since 1988.  The proportion of sexually active females reporting contraceptive use at first intercourse rose from 65 percent in 1988 to 77 percent in 1995 (driven largely by condom usage). How reliable are these data?  What are their implications for policy?

12:45 Registration & Check-In
1:00 Conference
Introduction Felicia Stewart, Director of Reproductive Health Programs, Kaiser Family Foundation 
Keynote Speaker C. DeLores Tucker, President, National Political Congress of Black Women
Panel 1: Assessing New Survey Findings
Joyce Abma, Demographer/Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics Paper ()
Slides
Freya Sonenstein, Director of Population Studies, The Urban Institute Paper ()
Slides
Christine Bachrach, Chief of Demographic and Behavioral Sciences, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Slides 
Panel 2: Possible Explanations
Tom Smith, Director, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago Remarks
Pat Funderburk Ware, President, PFW Consultants, Inc. Paper ()
Kate Michelman, President, National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL)  Paper
Overhead
Moderator Douglas Besharov, Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs; Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Paper

The Kaiser Family Foundation has made available several monographs on the topics of teen sexuality. Click here for more information.


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