National Survey of Adolescent Males, 1988

Investigators: Freya Sonenstein, Joseph Pleck, Leighton Ku and Charles Calhoun

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. In order to deal with the problem of over-reporting of sexual activity by adolescent males, questions about sexual activity were asked in the middle of the interview as well as in the self-administered portion. The questions in the self-administered section also included a sequence of statements describing progressively intimate behaviors and asking about the respondents' participation in these behaviors. Other data in the study include extensive questions on educational history as it relates to attendance and enrollment in parocial schools. A history of the respondent's employment over the last year is also compiled. Information regarding the family structure of the respondent's household over the last year is investigated, as well as information about the household when the respondent was aged fourteen. Finally, additional in-depth information of sexual behaviour is gathered when such behavior existed. This includes information on the characteristics of the partner(s) as well as contraceptive use. In the event of a pregnancy, respondents were also asked several questions about the outcome.

National Survey of Adolescent Males, 1988 and 1990-91

Investigators: Freya L. Sonenstein, Joseph H. Pleck, and Leighton Ku

The study's primary objective was to determine adolescent males' behaviors, education and knowledge concerning human sexuality, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. Respondents were surveyed in 1988 (Wave 1) and in again 1990-91 (Wave 2, which is also referred to as the Follow-up Survey of Adolescent Males). Behaviors that were examined include heterosexual and homosexual activity, condom use, and intravenous drug use. The study followed young men from adolescence, the period of initiation of sexual activity and other risk behaviors, into the beginnings of young adulthood, a time when sexual activity is often at its highest.

National Survey of Adolescent Males, New Cohort, 1995

Investigators: Freya L. Sonenstein, Leighton Ku, Joseph H. Pleck, and Charles F. Turner

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).

National Survey of Adolescent Males, Old Cohort, Waves 1-3, 1988, 1990-91, 1995

Investigators: Freya L. Sonenstein, Joseph H. Pleck, Leighton Ku and Charles F. Turner

The 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males is a nationally representative household survey of never-married males who were 15 to 19 years old in 1988, when they were sampled. The study's primary objective was to determine adolescent males' behaviors, education and knowledge concerning human sexuality, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. The survey followed young men from adolescence, the period of initiation of sexual activity and other risk behaviors, into the beginning of young adulthood, a time when sexual activity is often at its highest. The 1988 sample was a nationally representative multistage stratified probability sample, drawn by the Institute for Survey Research (ISR), Temple University. Black and Hispanic males were oversampled. The original weights were created, based on probability of selection, non-response and poststratification to the 1987 Current Population Survey. In 1990-91, ISR attempted to reinterview the original sample. In 1995, Research Triangle Institute (RTI) attempted to reinterview the 1988 sample again. Among the topics covered by the survey are demographic background, sexual and contraceptive history and attitudes, knowledge and attitudes about sexually transmitted diseases,work history, pregnancy and childbearing history, and child support and childrearing practices.

National Survey of Adolescent Males-1988 and 1990-91

Investigators: Freya L. Sonenstein, Joseph H. Pleck, & Leighton Ku

The National Survey of Adolescent Males 1988 and 1990-91 (NSAM) is a two-wave, longitudinal study conducted between 1988 and 1991. The survey followed young men from adolescence, the period of initiation of sexual activity and other risk behaviors, into the beginning of young adulthood, a time when sexual activity is often at its highest. This dataset includes data from both Wave 1 (1988) and Wave 2 (1990-91) of the survey. In 1988, a nationally representative sample of 1,880 never-married, non-institutionalized males ages 15 to 19 living in the contiguous United States was surveyed. The original sample of 1,880 males was drawn as a multistage area probability sample that oversampled for Blacks and Hispanics. The study's primary objective was to determine adolescent males' behaviors, education and knowledge concerning human sexuality, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. Wave 1 data were collected between April and December 1988. The primary mode of data collection was face-to-face interviews. The most sensitive topics (e.g., substance use, risky sexual behaviors) were assessed with confidential, written self-administered questionnaires. Extensive personal histories of sexual activity and contraception use were gathered, as well as respondents' personal perceptions of the various costs and benefits of contraceptive use and fathering children. Information on school attendance and recent employment history were also included. Wave 2 of NSAM, which is also referred to as the Follow-up Survey of Young Men (FSAM), was conducted between November 1990 and March 1991, when respondents were generally between the ages of 17 and 22. Of those respondents that participated in Wave 1, the follow-up rate was 89 percent (N=1,676). Data collection procedures were similar to that of Wave 1, with the use of face-to-face interviews and self-administered questionnaires.

National Survey of Children, 1981

Investigators: Child Trends, Inc.

This is the second of the two waves of studies sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development and the National Institute of Mental Health. When weighted, the data constitute a national sample of children aged 12-16 in 1981. The information provided is based on reinterviews with a subsample of those originally studied in 1976 (documented separately as DAAPPP Data Set No. 37-38). The main purposes of the 1976 survey were to: assess physical, social, and psychological well-being of different groups of American children, and develop a national profile of the way children live and the care they receive. The sample was a multi-stage stratified probability sample of households in the continental U.S. containing at least one child in the age range of 7 through 11 years at that time (born between 1964 and 1969). Black households were oversampled. Data were gathered on 2,301 children, which represented 1,747 households. Interviews were conducted with the eligible child and the parent most capable of providing information about the child, usually the mother. A follow-up study of schools attended by the children was also carried out. In 1981, a reinterview survey was conducted with all of those children who were in a high conflict or disrupted family in 1976, and with a subsample of the others. A total of 1,423 children completed the 1981 reinterview, 1,036 whites and 337 blacks. At the time of this second interview, children in the sample were aged 11 to 16. Most of the background and outcome measures were repeated in the 1981 survey. In addition, new data were gathered on patterns of parent-child interaction and on outcome areas more relevant for teenage children, including dating and sexual activity, drinking, smoking, drug use, and delinquency. Users who want to conduct longitudinal analyses of the 1976 and 1981 data should order both DAAPPP Data Set Nos. 37-38 and 88-90. 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.

National Survey of Children: Waves 1, 2 and 3, 1976-1987

Investigators: Nicholas Zill, James L. Peterson, Kristin A. Moore, and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

A three-wave longitudinal study was carried out by the Foundation for Child Development in 1976 (Wave 1) and by Child Trends, Inc. in 1981 and 1987 (Waves 2 and 3) in which the child was the focus of a personal interview with parents and children themselves. The purpose of Wave 1 was to assess the physical, social, and psychological well-being of different groups of American children; develop a profile of the way children live and the care they receive; permit analysis of the relationships between the condition of children's lives and measures of child development and well-being; and replicate items from previous national studies of child and parents to permit analysis of trends over time. Wave 2 focused on the effects of marital conflict and disruption on children. The third wave of data examined the social, psychological, and economic well-being of sample members as they became young adults. Further, for the first two waves, a teacher from the child's school answered questions on the child's academic performance and atmosphere.

National Survey of Children: Waves 1, 2, and 3, 1976-1987

Investigators: Nicholas Zill, James L. Peterson, Kristin A. Moore, and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

In 1976, the Foundation for Child Development sponsored the first nationally representative survey of children to be conducted in which the child was the focus of study and was personally interviewed. The purpose of the survey was to assess the physical, social, and psychological well-being of different groups of American children; develop a profile of the way children live and the care they receive; permit analysis of the relationships between the condition of children's lives and measures of child development and wellbeing; and replicate items from previous national studies of child and parents to permit analysis of trends over time. The focus of the 1981 survey was the effects of marital conflict and disruption on children. The goals of this wave of the survey included developing a profile of the behavioral and mental health of children at various stages in the marital disruption process and examining the influence of child, parent, and family factors that are thought to influence the risk of childhood problems associated with marital disruption. Most of the background and outcome measures employed in Wave 1 were repeated in Wave 2. In addition, new data were gathered on patterns of parent-child interaction and on outcome areas more relevant for teenage children, including dating and sexual activity, drinking, smoking, drug use, and delinquency. For families that had experienced a marital disruption, the follow-up interviews contained a number of questions concerning the relationship between the child and the parent living outside the home. In addition, if the custodial parent's former spouse was not the child's father, questions were asked about the child's relationship with the former spouse. The purpose of collecting a third wave of data was to examine the social, psychological, and economic well-being of sample members as they became young adults. In particular, their sexual and fertility behavior were a focus of interest. Accordingly, numerous questions were included in the questionnaire regarding sexual activity, contraception, pregnancy, and childrearing. Further, the third wave queried the respondents on such areas as the receipt of child support and welfare; pregnancy decision-making; family receipt of welfare as the youth was growing up; the establishment of paternity; and attitudes regarding marriage, child support, and welfare. Wave 3 also included questions on health, employment, and children born to teenage mothers. Finally, data on the family's zip code in 1976 (Wave 1), 1981 (Wave 2), and 1987 (Wave 3) were added to the computer file to create the possibility of doing contextual analyses of the data.

National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions

Investigators: Rachel K. Jones, Jacqueline E. Darroch, and Stanley K. Henshaw, The Alan Guttmacher Institute

To explore the factors behind unintended pregnancies ending in abortion, in 2000-2001, the Alan Guttmacher Institute surveyed women having abortions about their contraceptive behavior during the month they became pregnant. Demographic information was also collected. One of the main goals of this survey was to determine the extent to which contraceptive non-use, and problems with methods, resulted in abortion.

National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions, 1994-1995

Investigators: Stanley Henshaw

The survey reports information from an Alan Guttmacher Institute survey detailing a broad range of characteristics of abortion patients, including socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, residence, childbearing intention, and contraceptive use prior to the pregnancy. The survey, part of a larger project to update contraceptive failure rates, obtained usable questionnaires from 9,985 respondents in a stratified national sample of 100 clinics, hospitals, and physicians' offices in all regions of the country.