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The data for this project was collected through surveys of 646 male and female residents of La Paz during January and February of 2007. Participants were between the ages of 18 and 28 years old who had experienced a pregnancy before the age of twenty. Comprehensive information about the participants' living situations, health care, work status, earnings, alcohol and drug use, and relationships with their partners and families was gathered and analyzed. The project was focused on the results of the female participant's education, reproduction, geography, and potential for a higher standard of living. The survey was dispersed throughout La Paz in 21 public places believed to be frequented by most, if not all, segments of the city’s residents to ensure input from a wide range of socioeconomic classes. The public spaces included grocery stores, public markets, rural markets, a mall, a movie theater, hospitals (public and private), public health clinics in urban and rural areas, and busy city walkways with heavy foot traffic. There may be some problematic issues to consider with the study due to various factors. A simple random survey would have been ideal, but due to constraints of time, funding and a single researcher dispersing the questionnaire, a convenience survey was conducted instead. The participants took the survey in public, not at home, which could have excluded those confined to their houses and results in a sampling bias. The participants were given the option to take a self-administered survey or to be interviewed. The interview was administered by the researcher who is a tall Caucasian male from the United States. This may have led to some response bias and participant skepticism about the project itself even though the objective was explained beforehand with an assurance of anonymity. Using the results from the surveys as well as census reports, thematic maps were created to allow for a spatial analysis of the frequency of teenage pregnancy. There are also maps to display spatial patterns of other variables such as contraception use and educational achievement of the participants. In order to alleviate the the traditional negative outcomes caused by adolescent parenthood while decreasing current levels of teenage pregnancy, the quality and availability of essential social services must be increased. By illustrating spatial patterns of various factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy, as well as available social services and past pregnancy data, primary target areas for new programs aimed to combat this issue can be identified.
Pregnant Teenagers and Adolescent Parents in 1. Which neighborhood do you live in?
______________________________ 2. How old are you? ______ 3. What is your social status? single ___ girlfriend ___ wife ___ common union ___ divorced ___ widow ____ 4. How old is your current husband/boyfriend? _______ 5. Was your mother a teenager when you were born? Si / No 6. How old is/are the father(s) of your children? father #1____ #2 ___ #3 ___ #4 ____ 7. With whom do you live with? (check all that apply) I live alone ___ my childen ___ husband ___ boyfriend___ both parents ___ father ___ mother ___ siblings ____ grandparents ____ uncles/aunts ____ cousins ____ friends ____ otro ____ 8. What is the highest grade level you completed in school? ______ 9. How were your grades in school? Failing ___ Below Average ___ Average ____ Above Average ____ Excellent ____ 10. Did you continue going to school after you became pregnant? Yes / No 11. Did you continue going to school after you gave birth? Yes / No 12. Are you satisfied with your level of education? Yes / No 13. Did you have high educational goals growing up as a child? Si / No 14. If you had an opportunity to return to school, would you? Si / No 15. What was your reason for having dropped out of school? I completed school ___ I needed to work in order to support my family ____ I was pregnant ___ My grades were low ____ I did not enjoy school ____ Other reason _____ 16. What is your job status? Full-time _____ Part-time ______ Unemployed ______ 17. What type of job do you have?
______________________________ 18. Are you satisfied with your job? Yes / No 19. Do you have a difficult time finding jobs with your level of education? Yes / No 20. What is your income per day? Less than 80 pesos ____ Less than 160 pesos _____ Less than 240 pesos _______ more than 240 pesos_______ 21. What percentage of your family’s income do you provide? 0% _____ 25% _____50% _____ 75% _____ 100% _____ 22. How old were you when you first learned about sex? ______ 23. Who was the first person you talked to about sexual issues? (examples: friends, father, mother, siblings, etc..) _________________ 24. Did you ever attend a formal sex education class? 25. How old were you when you atended the first sex education class? __________ 26. Did your school require sex education? Yes / No 27. If you attended sex education in school, do you feel it was very informative? Yes / No 28. If the class did not take place in school, where was it? ____________ 29. How useful were the sex education classes that you have atended? Not useful _____ Somewhat useful _____ Useful _____ Very Useful ______ 30. How old were you during your first sexual experience? _____ 31. How old was your first sexual partner at time of experience? ______ 32. Did you use a contraceptive the first time you had intercourse? Yes / No 33. How often do you use contraception? Never ____ Hardly ever ____ Sometimes ____ Almost Always ____ Always ____ 34. What type of contraception do you and your sexual partner use the most? _________ 35. Who do you believe should be more responsible for using birth control? Man ____ Woman _____ Responsibility is equal _____ 36. What age was your oldest sexual partner? _______ 37. Which neighborhood did you live in when you became pregnant the first time? ______________________________ 38. How old were you when you had your first child? _____ 39. What are the ages of your children? I do not have children ___ child #1 ____ #2 ____ #3 ____ #4 ____ #5 ____ #6 _____ 40. Do you financially support all of your children? Yes / No 41. From where did you receive prenatal care before you gave birth? I never received care ___ Hospital ____ Private doctor ____ Clinic ____ Other _____ 42. How many children did you have out of wedlock? ______ 43. How many accidental pregnancies have you experienced? None ___ 1 ___ 2 ___ 3 or more ___ 44. How many of those pregnancies resulted in births? ______ 45. How many of those pregnancies resulted in abortions? ______ 46. Have you ever considered having an abortion? Yes / No 47. Did your first child have any birth defects? Yes / No 48. If so, what was their condition?
______________________________ 49. Are you married to the father of
your first child? Yes / No young mothers in La Paz? _____ sex education classes _____ classes about contraceptive use _____ access to free contraceptives _____ abortion services _____ family planning _____ prenatal care _____ parenting classes _____ continuing adult education _____ job training _____ job placement _____ alcohol/drug treatment _____ low-cost childcare 51. Which of the following services would you use if they were available in your area?: _____ sex education classes _____ classes about contraceptive use _____ access to free contraceptives _____ abortion services _____ family planning _____ prenatal care _____ parenting classes _____ continuing adult education _____ job training _____ job placement _____ alcohol/drug treatment _____ low-cost childcare 52. Which three services do you feel that you (and your family) would benefit from the most?
53. Would you consider yourself: Not religious ______ Somewhat religious _____ Very Religious _______ 54. Who helps you pay for the cost of raising your children?: nobody ____the father of the children ____ my husband ____ my mother ___ my father ____ my uncles/aunts ____ my grandparents ____ my cousins ____ my older children ___ my friends _____ my boyfriend ____other _____ 55. Who helps you raise your children?: nobody ____ the father(s) of my children ____ my husband ____my mother ___ my father ____ my uncles/aunts ____ my grandparents ____ my cousins____ my older childen ___ my friends _____ my boyfriend ____other _____ 56. How often do you have contact with your children? Never ___ Once a month ___ Once a week ___ Many days per week ___ Everyday ___ 57. How often do you consume alcohol/drugs before having sex? Never ___ Hardly at all ___
Sometimes ____ Most of the time ____ Always ____ 58. Do you have a problem with alcohol?
Yes/ No; Drugs? Yes / No; Both? Yes / No 59. Before the age of twenty, were you
ever forced to have sex against your will? Yes /no 60. Do you consider teenage pregnancy
to be a problem in La Paz? Yes / No 61. Are you aware of the services
available to females at Centro de Las Mujeres?Yes/ No 62. If more programs aimed at family planning were available would you use them? Yes/No
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