Contraceptive medicalisation, fear of infertility and teenage pregnancy in Brazil

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Table 1 Description of the sample and analytic sub-samples.

	Whole ethnographic Sample n = 96	Sample of youth who had not become parents ≧ 24 years (2004 follow-up) n = 55	Teen parenthood (13–19 years) n = 17^*	Became parents in early adulthood (20–24 years) n = 16^* ^*
Family income at birth (minimum salaries)^***
≤ 1	21	11	5	4
1.1–3	42	22	8	8
3.1–6	24	18	2	2
6.1–10	5	1	1	2
>10	3	3	–	–
Family income at 18–19 years of age (minimum salaries)^***
≤ 1	7	4	2	1
1.1–3	20	9	7	2
3.1–6	34	21	4	7
6.1–10	14	11	1	2
>10	17	9	3	3
Maternal schooling (at birth) in years
0–4	25	11	7	5
5–8	49	27	8	9
9–11	9	7	1	1
≥ 12	13	10	1	1
Young person's schooling (years)
0–4	3	1	1	1
5–8	29	14	10	7
9–11	44	33	6	7
≥ 12	4	3	–	1
Note: ^* = 12 women, 5 men; ^* ^* = 5 women, 11 men; ^* ^* ^* one minimum salary is roughly equivalent to US $100.00.