Contraceptive Efficacy Among Married Women 15-44 Years of Age in the United States, 1970-73

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• Personal Author:
  Ford, K.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistic (U.S.)
• Description:
  In the 3-year period 1970-73, 7.3 percent of U.S. married women who sought to delay their next wanted child became unintentionally pregnant while using contraception within 1 year following initiation of use (table 1). OnIy 3.7 percent of those who had decided to terminate childbearing failed to achieve that goal during the first year of contraception after deciding to prevent future births. Tilde these rates may imply acute problems for the individuals who did experience contraceptive failure, they are an indicator of the high degree of effectiveness of contraceptive use considered in the aggregate. ; This report was prepared by Kathleen Ford, Ph.D., Division of Vital Statistics. The information in this report was extracted from the report “Contraceptive Efficacy Among Married Women in the United States, 1970 -1973,” by Barbara Vaughan, James Trussell, Jane Menken, and EIise F. Jones, which will be published in Series 23 of the Vital and Health Statistics series.
• Content Notes:
  Advance data from vital and health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics ; no. 26 ; DHEW publication ; no (PHS) 78-1250
• Subjects:
  • Birth Control
  • Contraception
  • Contraceptive Devices, Female
  • Women
• Source:
  National Survey of Family Growth
• Series:
  NCHS Advance Data
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Issue:
  26
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/76679/cdc_76679_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 337.17 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics ; Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
• Main Document Checksum:
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