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The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (1999). Special report: U.S. teenage pregnancy statistics with comparative statistics for women aged 20-24. New York: Author. Ventura, S.J., Mosher, W.D., Curtin, S.C., Abma, J.C., & Henshaw, S. (2000). Trends in pregnancies and pregnancy rates by outcome: Estimates for the Untied States, 1976-96. Vital and Health Statistics 21(56). Kaufmann, R.B., Spitz, A.M., Strauss, L.T., Morris, L., Santelli, J.S., Koonin, L.M., & Marks, J.S. (1998). The decline in US teen pregnancy rates, 1990-1995. Pediatrics, 102(5), 1141-7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2000). Pregnancy rates among adolescents – United States, 1995-1997. MMWR, 49(27), 605-11.
Each of the available sets of recent teen pregnancy rates was calculated using different methods, so data from one report should not be compared with data from another.
Just the Facts (October 2000) – Page 7
Comparison of Four National Teen Pregnancy Rate Sets (pregnancies per 1,000 girls aged 15-19)
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