The overall objective of the study was to increase knowledge and understanding of the determinants of adolescent male contraceptive use. The study included a variety of measures replicated from the National Survey of Young Men, conducted by Zelnik and Kantner in 1979 (DAAPPP data set number 45), as well as a number of other measures specified by the Interpersonal-Attitudinal-Utility (IAU) model of contraceptive use adapted to male respondents. The IAU model suggests that male contraceptive use is determined by the "expected utility" of contraception, assessed by respondents' perceptions of various costs and benefits associated with contraception. Thus, particular interest is paid to questions regarding perceptions of the costs and benefits of unexpected pregnancies, contraceptive devices, and expectations of probabilities of different outcomes of sexual choices.

The survey is a nationally representative survey of teenage men, designed to increase knowledge and understanding of the determinants of adolescent male contraceptive use, sexual activity and related risk behaviors. Respondents age 15 to 19 were surveyed from February through November of 1995. The most sensitive information was gathered by a Self Administered Questionnaire (SAQ).