In 2015–2017, 42% of never-married female teenagers aged 15–19 and 38% of never-married male teenagers had had sexual intercourse; the percentage declined by 17% for male teenagers between 2002 and 2015–2017.
In some states, those with high Mormon populations, teenagers are married. And so that doesn’t represent the rest of the country. So these individuals are excluded.
But why are those not interesting for their data? It kinda feels like the question they want to answer is “how many teenager are sinners having premarital sex” rather than the average age of first sex. Which would also mean that lots of teenagers would feel encouraged to claim that they’re virgins when they actually aren’t.
daannii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have reference. For the U.S.
www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db366.htm
Data from 2015 2017.
And some newer data. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/dstr/index.html
This site here uses that data and made easy to read graphs.
opa.hhs.gov/…/data-and-statistics-on-adolescent-s…
Like this one.
Showing most kids graduate high school without having had intercourse yet.
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Another gov site with data for 2024.
stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/134957
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Neat. Why specifically “never-married”, though?
daannii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s exclusion criteria.
In some states, those with high Mormon populations, teenagers are married. And so that doesn’t represent the rest of the country. So these individuals are excluded.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 month ago
But why are those not interesting for their data? It kinda feels like the question they want to answer is “how many teenager are sinners having premarital sex” rather than the average age of first sex. Which would also mean that lots of teenagers would feel encouraged to claim that they’re virgins when they actually aren’t.