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Author: Card, J. J. Reagan
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Card, J. J. Reagan Ritter, R. T. |
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Sourcebook of Comparison Data for Evaluating Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Programs Palo Alto, CA: Sociometrics Corporation, 1988 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sociometrics Corporation Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Data Quality/Consistency; Demography; Education; Education Indicators; Evaluations; Parenting Skills/Styles; Pregnancy, Adolescent Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This source book contains 51 tables of data for use in the evaluation of adolescent pregnancy and parenting programs, both for primary prevention programs and for care programs. The publication provides age and race stratified norms for females on a set of demographic, health, sex, fertility, education, and word-related variables that are the core of the Minim Evaluation Data Set recommended by the Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing of the National Academy of Sciences. Guidelines for use of these norms to conduct cost-effective evaluations are included, along with illustrative case studies. The manual provides current data on antecedent and outcome variables usually included in evaluation of adolescent pregnancy and parenting programs as a source of comparison statistics when planning a program evaluation or an alternative to the collection of data from a control group. Source book data are derived from: (1) the l982 National Servile of Female? Growth, cycle III (National Center for Health Statistics); (2) 1984 birth certificate data (National Center for Health Statistics; and (3) the 1979-1985 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (Ohio State University). Evaluators can make best use of the source book hi considering these variables in the planning phase of the evaluation. |
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Card, J. J. Reagan and R. T. Ritter. Sourcebook of Comparison Data for Evaluating Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Programs. Palo Alto, CA: Sociometrics Corporation, 1988. |