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Let’s Talk About Birth Control

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July 17 2018 • 1 min read

Amber Thomas @ProQuesAsker
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The Premise

Hundreds of thousands of people throughout the US are contraceptive users, but generally, the topic is kept “hush-hush”. We talk about it with friends and peers, but the more information we have, the more informed decisions we can make for ourselves. I analyzed data from the CDC’s National Survey on Family Growth to learn more about contraceptive use in the US.

My Contributions

  • Data acquisition and analysis
  • Article Design
  • Front End Programming (HTML, CSS, JS)
  • Story Writing

Collaborators

Rachel Jones of the Guttmacher Institute provided a lot of helpful feedback on both the analysis and the story. I also interviewed several contraceptive users to learn more about their personal experiences, and I am so grateful that they were willing to share!

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