9-11


9-11.		Increase the proportion of young adults who have received formal instruction before turning age 18 years on reproductive health issues, including all of the following topics: birth control methods, safer sex to prevent HIV, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and abstinence.

Target: 90 percent.

Baseline: 64 percent of females aged 18 to 24 years reported having received formal instruction on all of these reproductive health issues before turning age 18 years in 1995. (Data on males will be available in the future.)

Target setting method: Better than the best.

Data source: National Survey of Family Growth, (NSFG), CDC, NCHS.

Females Aged 18 to 24 Years, 1995	Received Reproductive Health Instruction Prior to Age 18 Years
	9-11. Aged 18 to 24 Years	Aged 18 to 19 Years*	Aged 20 to 24 Years*
	Percent
TOTAL	64	80	57
Race and ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian or Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU
Asian	DSU	DSU	DSU
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU
Black or African American	65	81	59
White	64	81	57

Hispanic or Latino	56	69	51
Not Hispanic or Latino	65	82	58
Black or African American	66	80	60
White	65	83	58
Family income level
Poor	63	82	56
Near poor	58	76	52
Middle/high income	66	81	60
Sexual orientation	DNC	DNC	DNC

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
*Data for females aged 18 to 19 years and 20 to 24 years are displayed to further characterize the issue.