Data capture was performed according to the questionnaires prepared in advance separately for teenagers and their parents. Questionnaires had been worked out by the specialists from SCC of MCHC and approved by the UNESCO expert D-r Abdul Khakim and the UNFPA expert M-m Jean Robson. Comments and suggestions were made by reviewers: academician of AMST D-r Turayeva SH. M. the head of the Department of Reproductology of SCC of MCHC, the Head of the Department of Constitutional and Informational Law of the Turkmen State University Prof. Khaitov M. O.

Investigation strategy supposed a quantitative collection of information from teenagers of 14 – 18 and their parents both in urban and rural areas. To achieve the goals of the investigation and collection of full information volume was supposed possible only through giving responses to questionnaire issues. Once the questionnaires had been responded, specialists: doctors, teachers, lawyers conducted information – clarifying talks about the activities devoted to reproductive health care being performed in the country as well as talks about a necessity to increase attention of healthcare institutions and parents to these problems. Very often talks escalated into animated communication in the course of which very important problems of social maturity of youth were touched upon.

After meetings with parents a survey of students was conducted. Moreover, boys and girls were questioned separately in different classrooms and afterwards a clarifying activity about possible consequences of inattentive attitude towards one’s own reproductive health, different disorders and preventive measures was performed. And these talks as well as it took place in case with adults grew into animated communication and there emerged a great deal of questions from teenagers. The activity undertaken once more confirmed topicality and timeliness of measures aimed at reproductive health care of both teenagers and adults.

An important element of sociological research is observance of reliability and objectivity of the received information. Proper execution of these requirements was achieved due to the fact that respondents were informed of anonymity of the survey and the use of their responses only for working-out effective measures for reproductive health care. Respondents filled out questionnaires independently and this created an opportunity for each of them to present thoughtful responses for the given questions.

Data capture was to be performed in two velayats on the basis of a selective investigation. So, for the survey there were selected a close to the capital Akhal Velayat and the largest from the point of view of quantity of rural inhabitants Mary Velayat (according to the data of the Institute of Statistics and Prognosis the part of the rural population in Mary Velayat in 1996 was 74 per cent that is the highest index among all velayats). Among administrative – territorial units of rural regions – etraps the surveys were conducted in 4 etraps of Mary velayat (Mary, Vekil-Bazar, Murgab and Youlotan) and in 3 etraps of Akhal velayat (Ashgabat, Gyurs and Tedjen). The surveys were also conducted in the capital – Ashgabat and a velayat center – the city of Mary.

Teenagers were questioned at schools, lycees, colleges and technical colleges, since the major place of their concentration were still educational establishments. Selection of schools for the survey was made with the use of sample steps and territorial location of schools in the region of the survey to get representative data. In the course of the survey there was taken into account the age to be referred to the adolescent age, that is 14 – 18. Accordingly pupils of 7 – 8 – 9 – 10^th forms were selected.

As a result there were questioned 2525 pupils and 2211 parents. According to socio – demographic indices the respondents were distributed in the following way: