Contraceptive Practices and Trends in France

changed in response to the fear of AIDS, focusing on the contraceptive behavior of single men and women. We also analyze recent trends in condom use that may have been influenced by increasing fear of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), as well as by contraceptive needs. We distinguish the percentages of men and women who currently use condoms (at the time of the survey), who have ever used condoms, who used them during the year before the survey and who used them during first sexual intercourse. When com-pared through successive cohorts, these in-dicators allow us to analyze the recent changes in condom use. Such changes can be difficult to measure because condom use is often limited to short intervals