2001 Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Sexual Behaviors Fact Sheet
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Trends

Compared to 1997, significantly fewer high school students had sex prior to age 13, had multiple partners, used alcohol or drugs before sex, and had been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant. See Figure 7 .

Survey Question MI Gender Grade race/ethnicity
01 M F 9 10 11 12 White Black Hispanic
% of students who have ever talked with
their parents
or other adults in their family
about what they expected them to do or not
to do when it comes to sex
69 65 74 67 70 69 72 68 77 72
% of students who had ever been taught
about AIDS or HIV infection
in school
89 89 89 85 89 91 91 90 82 82
% of students who had sexual intercourse 40 38 42 26 37 44 59 37 58 47
% of students who had sexual intercourse
for the first time before age 13
5 6 3 7 6 3 4 3 15 7
% of students who had sexual intercourse
with four or more people
during their life
11 11 10 7 10 10 16 9 21 15
% of students who had sexual intercourse
within the last 3 months
30 26 33 17 26 34 48 28 42 32
Of students who have ever had sexual
intercourse, % not having sexual
intercourse during the past 3 months
26 31 21 34 30 23 19 25 28
Of students who had sexual intercourse during 
the past 3 months, % who drank alcohol or used
 drugs before last sexual intercourse
24 28 20 30 22 23 21 25 14
Of students who had sexual intercourse
during the past 3 months, % who used a
condom
during last sexual intercourse
61 67 56 65 60 62 59 61 66
Of students who had sexual intercourse
during the past 3 months, % who used birth
control pills
during last sexual intercourse
22 17 26 11 15 25 30 25 7
% of students who had been pregnant or
gotten someone pregnant one or more times
3 3 3 2 2 3 5 2 7 10
% of students who have ever been
physically forced to have sexual
intercourse
when they did not want to
10 7 12 7 9 11 12 9 12 12
Of students who ever had sexual intercourse,
% whose first partner was 3 or more
years older
25 14 35 31 28 20 22 25 25
% of students whose partner was 5 or
more years older
than they were the first
time they had sexual intercourse
3 1 4 3 3 2 2 2 5 2

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