Kahn J R, Kalsbeek W D, Hofferth S L
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742.
Demography. 1988 May;25(2):189-204.
In this article, we examine the reliability with which teenage sexual activity was reported in three recent national surveys. Unlike other study-effects analyses of objective demographic phenomena such as births and marriages, ours focuses on a more sensitive question--age at first intercourse as reported in three very different surveys. Specifically, we compare reports for the 1959-1963 cohort in the 1979 Kantner-Zelnik Study of Young Women, the 1982 National Survey of Family Growth, and the 1983 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For the ages when the majority of teens become sexually active (16-19), the three surveys provide comparable estimates of early sexual activity. For the younger teen ages, however, there is some disagreement among the estimates. Nevertheless, all three studies produce consistent estimates of the determinants of sexual activity throughout the teen years.
在本文中，我们考察了最近三项全国性调查中青少年性行为报告的可靠性。与其他针对诸如出生和婚姻等客观人口现象的研究效应分析不同，我们的研究聚焦于一个更敏感的问题——在三项截然不同的调查中所报告的首次性交年龄。具体而言，我们比较了1979年坎特纳 - 泽尔尼克青年女性研究、1982年全国家庭成长调查以及1983年全国青年纵向调查中1959 - 1963年出生队列的报告。对于大多数青少年开始性行为的年龄（16 - 19岁），这三项调查对早期性行为提供了可比的估计。然而，对于年龄更小的青少年，各项估计之间存在一些分歧。尽管如此，所有三项研究对整个青少年时期性行为的决定因素都得出了一致的估计。
