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Contraceptive Method Choice Among Youth in the United States: The Importance of Relationship Context

verfasst von: Yasamin Kusunoki, Dawn M. Upchurch

Erschienen in: Demography | Ausgabe 4/2011

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We examine the relationship characteristics associated with contraceptive method choice within young people’s nonmarital sexual relationships, using data from retrospective relationship histories available in the third wave (2001–2002) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Data-reduction techniques produce a detailed multidimensional characterization of relationship commitment for nonmarital sexual relationships. We then use multilevel analysis to estimate associations between two key relationship characteristics—relationship commitment and couple heterogamy—and the type of contraceptive method used at last sexual intercourse within each relationship. Results indicate that for a given individual, contraceptive method choice varies across relationships as a function of these characteristics, even after we account for important individual and family characteristics and prior relationship experiences.

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We recognize the potential recall bias for relationships that occurred further in the past. We replicated the final model for relationships that were ongoing in the past three years and found comparable results.

This part of the study design was motivated by the different research interests of the Add Health investigators, which resulted in different versions of the questionnaire being administered according to relationship type (sexual, important, or couple). Refer to the Add Health website for details (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/files/w3cdbk/sect19.zip).

Only 1.5% of relationships did not have valid contraception information (i.e., the information was missing).

In addition, we performed latent class analysis, which provides fit statistics, in order to compare results to those from the cluster analysis. The latent class analysis indicated a three-cluster solution as having the best fit. In general, this three-class solution is a collapsed version of the five-category cluster solution. We chose the five-category cluster solution because it reveals important variations in contraceptive method choice that are masked by the three-class solution.

aML does not have survey estimation procedures comparable to those within Stata. Therefore, the school-based (and thus clustered) design of Add Health is handled by treating the school as an additional level and including the Add Health’s post-stratification variable (region of the United States) at the school level.

We also ran separate models that included gender by relationship commitment and couple heterogamy; we discuss only significant gender differences in the text.

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Titel: Contraceptive Method Choice Among Youth in the United States: The Importance of Relationship Context
verfasst von: Yasamin Kusunoki
Dawn M. Upchurch
Publikationsdatum: 01.11.2011
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Demography / Ausgabe 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0070-3370
Elektronische ISSN: 1533-7790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-011-0061-0

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