State Policy Determinants of Teenage Childbearing, 1979

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State Policy Determinants of Teenage Childbearing, 1979

Investigators: Kristin A. Moore

Publication Date: March 23, 2016

State Policy Determinants of Teenage Childbearing, 1979

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This study was designed to identify and catalog state governmental policies that affect the teenage mother and to describe how those policies may influence teenage childbearing. The policies examined included: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), prenatal care programs, Medicaid, food stamps, family planning services, age of consent laws, abortion services, and alternatives to childbearing. The outcomes of interest included teenage marriage, pregnancy, childbearing, and abortion rates. Two sets of analyses were carried out in the original study, one focusing on the individual teenage female as the unit of analysis, and the other focusing on the incidence of teenage childbearing within each state or SMSA as a whole. However, only the state-level data are included in the file. The sample thus consists of each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. as a whole.Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

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