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Feb 22 2012

starsThe Target Speaks for Itself

Just in time for our Bedsider launch last November, The National Campaign released polling data that give insight into young adults' attitudes about unplanned pregnancy and contraception. Now these nationally representative numbers have been pulled together into a new publication, The Target Speaks: What Young Adults Think About Unplanned Pregnancy, that can be downloaded or purchased from our website.

The data are brought to life with clean, easy-to-understand graphics. The image below, for example, represents the response unmarried young adults gave when asked how much they agree or disagree that pregnancies should be planned:

should pregnancies be planned.png That's an informative infographic, right? There's more where that came from. Go grab your copy now and see for yourself.

1 Comments


First, I'd like to say that the information you are presenting is great and important.
A lot of the infographics in the document are incorrect and misleading. Take the image above - there are 100 people, so 67 should be dark blue and 8 should be orange. An other example are the bars on page 22 - the 2% bar can't fit 39 times into the 79% bar.
Infographics are a great way to convey the feeling of the data to people, but if you make the infographic incorrect you are conveying the _wrong_ feeling to people.

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