Citation

Daniels K, Jones J, Abma JC. NCHS Data Brief 2013; (112): 1-8.

Affiliation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, United States National Center for Health Statistics)

DOI

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PMID

23742711

Abstract

Key findings: Data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth In 2006-2010, among sexually experienced women aged 15-44, roughly one in nine (11% or 5.8 million) women had ever used emergency contraception, up from 4.2% in 2002. Most women who had ever used emergency contraception had done so once (59%) or twice (24%). Young adult women aged 20-24 were most likely to have ever used emergency contraception; about one in four had done so (23%). Almost 1 in 5 never-married women (19%), 1 in 7 cohabiting women (14%), and 1 in 20 currently or formerly married women (5.7%) had ever used emergency contraception. About one in two women reported using emergency contraception because of fear of method failure (45%), and about one in two reported use because they had unprotected sex (49%).

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