
It probably needs to be said that survey by questionnaire is a pretty risky method of gathering data about teen sex. The subject is embarrassing and stimulating and might well lead to exuberant but not necessarily factual answers. There is a hint that this sometimes happened in the longitudinal study, in which "a few participants ... reported first sex at extremely young ages."
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