Effects of Organized Family Planning Programs on U.S. Adolescent Fertility, 1970-1975

This study was designed to understand the extent to which the increase in enrollment by teenagers in federally-funded family planning clinics was responsible for the decline in adolescent childbearing and pregnancy rates in the United States. In the original study, areal multivariate analyses were performed using various models. Analyses were performed partialling out the effects of other factors affecting fertility, such as poverty, status, education, and urbanization. The file presented here includes only the county level data, the smallest geographic unit at which much of the data was available. In the original study, these data were aggregated to form three different kinds of statistical analysis units (SAU) that were large enough for analysis. The statistical analysis units can be reconstructed using the codes from this data file.