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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Stud Fam Plann. 2009 Dec;40(4):277–288. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2009.00211.x

Table 2.

Sexual experience and reproductive health behaviors of Port-au-Prince female sexually experienced youth, by data collection approach

PLACE (n=157) FOSREF Facility – RH (n=533) FOSREF Facility - VCT (n=148)
Age at first sex
 12 or younger 8.5 4.3 4.7
 13 5.9 5.5 3.4
 14 12.4 9.8 12.2
 15 13.1 17.2 16.9
 16 17.0 16.2 21.6
 17 16.3 16.0 22.3
 18-21 25.5 29.3 15.5
 22-24 1.3 1.8 3.4
Mean (median) 16.0 years (16 years) 16.4 years (16 years) 16.2 years (16 years)
# of partners in last 12 months ***
 0 5.7 2.5 3.4
 1 59.2 87.5 73.7
 2 7.6 6.8 13.5
 3+ 14.7 3.2 9.5
 (less than 5) 12.7 na na
Condom use at last sexa ***
 No 40.0 79.3 57.1
 Yes 60.0 20.8 43.0
STI experienceb ***
 No 25.8 84.5 90.3
 Yes 74.2 15.5 9.7
Transactional sex – ever
 Gave money/goods 3.2* 0.6 0.7
 Received money/goods 10.1*** 1.9 2.0
Used FP at first sex ***
 No 56.5 87.0 75.8
 Yes 43.5 13.0 24.2
Used FP at last sex ***
 No 28.7 59.9 51.0
 Yes 71.3 40.1 49.0
Ever pregnant ***
 No 76.4 31.9 71.4
 Yes 23.6 (n=37) 68.1 (n=363) 28.6 (n=42)
Number of pregnancies **
 1 48.6 57.9 83.3
 2 37.1 30.9 11.9
 3+ 14.3 11.2 4.8
Wanted last pregnancy **
 No 48.6 70.1 82.5
 Yes 51.4 29.9 17.5
Ever abortion ***
 No 41.7 78.6 57.1
 Yes 58.3 21.4 42.9
a

Condom use at last sex only asked for youth who had sex in the last year.

b

Some missing data because people did not know symptoms or did not respond. PLACE asks about experience with three specific symptoms in last 4 weeks, clinic survey only asks if youth ever had an STI in the last year.

Notes: Some cells have fewer observations due to missing data; some columns do not sum to 100% because of rounding. na – not applicable. FP – family planning. Chi-square comparisons:

*

p ≤ 0.05;

**

*p ≤ 0.01;

***

p ≤ 0.001 for comparison between distributions for PLACE and both FOSREF facility-based youth jointly.