Family Planning Annual Report: 1997 Summary.

DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICAL REPORT

I. INTRODUCTION

All grantees receiving funding under the federal Title X program are required to submit annual service data. The responsibility for collection and tabulation of annual service data from Title X grantees rests with the Office of Population Affairs (OPA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), which is responsible for administering Title X funds.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), under a grant from DHHS, has tabulated the grantee reports for three years now and prepared a report summarizing the regional and national totals. First, the methodology used in both collection and tabulation of grantee reports is presented. Included here are the definitions developed and provided by OPA to the grantees for use in completing data requests. The body of the report presents the demographic characteristics of family planning users, contraceptive methods used, selected services and staff, and funding sources. In each section of the report, national totals and regional highlights are discussed and, in some cases, trends between 1995 and 1997 are mentioned. Tabulations by state for female users by age and for total users by poverty status are included in Appendix A.

Also included in the report are lengthy notes that provide detail regarding discrepancies between what OPA requested and what individual grantees were able to provide (Appendix B). In several cases it was necessary to make adjustments to the data provided by grantees and all adjustments are explained in these notes. In addition, detailed national and regional tables are included in Part 2 of this report.

II. METHODOLOGY

The forms completed by each Title X grantee include a brief grantee profile (Legal name, address, contact names and numbers, number of clinics supported by the Title X Family Planning Services grant) and seven tables requesting information about users, service use and revenue for the 1997 reporting period (calendar year 1997). (See Part 2-III for copies of these forms.)