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Dating The percentage of 12th grade students who report dating frequently has declined steadily since 2001, reaching a new low in 2006 of 24 percent...> View Indicator Sexually Active Teens Non-Hispanic black students are more likely than Hispanic students, and non-Hispanic white students to report having sexual intercourse in the previous three months, 47 percent versus 35 percent and 32 percent, respectively... > View Indicator Sexually Experienced Teens The percentage of high school students who have ever had sexual intercourse declined between 1991 and 2001 from 54 percent to 46 percent, and was 47 percent in 2005... > View Indicator "Statutory Rape": Sex between Young Teens and Older Individuals Among young people ages 15 to 24 in 2002, 13 percent of females and 5 percent of males reported that their first sexual experience occurred at age 15 or younger with an individual who was three or more years older ("statutory rape")... > View Indicator Oral Sex Among teens ages 15 to 19 who have not had sexual intercourse, almost one in four report having ever engaged in oral sex with an opposite sex partner (24 percent of males and 22 percent of females in 2002), based on analyses of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)... > View Indicator Condom Use Condom use at most recent sexual intercourse among sexually active high school students increased from 46 percent in 1991 to 63 percent in 2005. Over the past two years condom use has remained constant... > View Indicator Birth Control Pill Use Among sexually active high school students, non-Hispanic whites are far more likely than non-Hispanic black or Hispanic students to use birth control pills (22 percent versus 10 percent, for both non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics in 2005)... > View Indicator Teen Births After declining in each year between 1991 and 2005, the birth rate for females ages 15 to 19 increased 3 percent from 40.5 births per 1,000 females in 2005 to 41.9 in 2006.....> View Indicator Teen Pregnancy Pregnancy rates among adolescent females have fallen steadily during the past decade, from 116.3 per 1,000 female teens ages 15 to 19 in 1990 to 84.5 per 1,000 female teens in 2000, the lowest rate reported since 1976... > View Indicator Teen Abortion The abortion rate among teens ages 15 to 17 has declined by 45 percent since 1990, from 26.5 abortions per 1,000 teen females in 1990 to 14.5 abortions per 1,000 teen females in 2000... > View Indicator
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