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Statistical analyses Of female respondents, three were excluded because they were not sexually active and three because they had no partners in the past 12 months. Receive exclusive offers and updates from Oxford Academic. Unpublished final report submitted to WHO in March, Ann N Y Acad Sci. Moreover, the fact that less than half of sexually experienced young people reported using a condom at first intercourse suggests that unprotected first intercourse may prevail among the broader population of Thai young people.

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The data reported here, though limited, show that in most of the countries included, a high proportion of adolescents and young adults are potentially at risk for a range of poor reproductive health outcomes. By the mids, changing epidemiologic concerns and an increased awareness of the importance of men's reproductive role and health needs led to heightened interest in including men in family planning and fertility surveys, and various surveys began to interview men as well as women. The sex partner category variable was based on the number of male and female sex partners respondents reported in the baseline survey for the past 12 months. Out-of-school females also had the youngest mean age at first intercourse of Data Sources The data were obtained from a variety of nationally representative sample surveys of men and women Table 1. Some differences in the design and execution of surveys may have had small effects on the quality of data. The field data collection methods were as described in detail elsewhere Assanangkornchai et al.