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Table 2 Sexual risk behaviours among adolescent girls who reported to ever had sex in their lives

From: Teenage pregnancy rates and associations with other health risk behaviours: a three-wave cross-sectional study among South African school-going adolescents

Risky behaviours

2002

2008

2011

ALL

(N = 1854)

(N = 1499)

(N = 1707)

(N = 5060)

%

%

%

%

First had sex at age ≤ 13

8.6

6.6

7.4

7.7

Number of sexual partners

    

 1 partner

68.8

69.9

62.7

68.2

 2 or more partners

30.2

28.7

34.9

31.8

Ever use alcohol before sex

6.7

13.1

13.8

11.0

used condom during sex

    

 Never or rarely use condoms

32.8

25.4

27.6

28.9

 Mostly use condoms

67.2

74.6

72.4

71.1

Contraceptive methods

    

 No method

16.0

14.2

13.3

14.6

 Birth control pills

4.6

3.8

5.2

4.6

 Condoms

32.5

44.3

46.6

40.7

 Injection

14.4

11.7

12.6

13.0

 Other

8.2

7.5

8.7

8.1

Ever been pregnant

17.3

23.6

21.3

20.5

Ever had an abortion

5.1

6.8

6.0

5.9