He added: "Everyone in Detroit experienced a scare when gas prices spiked and buying habits changed overnight.
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Young women from less advantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience a pregnancy scare, and pregnancy scares are often followed by an unintended pregnancy.
In other words, although women from disadvantaged backgrounds experience more pregnancy scares and higher unintended pregnancy rates, young women who experience a pregnancy scare have higher unintended pregnancy rates than their peers without a pregnancy scare, net of their disadvantaged background.
For example, while only 32% of those who did not experience a pregnancy scare are African American, 54% of those who experienced a pregnancy scare are African American.
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Forty percent of the women who experienced a pregnancy scare subsequently had an unintended pregnancy during the study period, relative to only 11% of those who did not experience a pregnancy scare.
In other words, young women who experience a pregnancy scare have higher unintended pregnancy rates than those who do not, regardless of their background.
This suggests that although pregnancy scares occur to all types of young women, those from less advantaged backgrounds are more likely to experience a pregnancy scare than those from more advantaged backgrounds.
First we calculate the descriptive statistics for all independent variables for the total sample, as well as two subsamples: those who never experienced a pregnancy scare, and those who experienced a pregnancy scare (Table 2).
African-American race, lack of two-parent family structure, lower GPA, cohabitation, and sex without birth control prior to the study are associated with experiencing a pregnancy scare and with experiencing a greater number of pregnancy scares.
