9-4.
Reduce the proportion of females experiencing pregnancy despite use of a reversible contraceptive method.
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9-4. | |
Reduce the proportion of females experiencing pregnancy despite use of a reversible contraceptive method. |
Target: 7 percent.
Baseline: 13 percent of females aged 15 to 44 years experienced pregnancy despite use of a reversible contraceptive method in 1995.
Target setting method: Better than the best (retain year 2000 target).
Data sources: National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), CDC, NCHS; Abortion Patient Survey, The Alan Guttmacher Institute.
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Females Aged 15 to 44
Years Using |
Experienced
|
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
13 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DSU |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Black or African American |
DNC |
|
White |
DNC |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
15 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DNA |
|
Black or African American |
20 |
|
White |
11 |
|
Family income level |
|
|
Poor |
DSU |
|
Near poor |
18 |
|
Middle/high income |
10 |
|
Disability status |
|
|
Persons with disabilities |
DNC |
|
Persons without disabilities |
DNC |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Marital/cohabiting status |
|
|
Married |
9 |
|
Cohabiting |
22 |
|
Unmarried, not cohabiting |
14 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.