Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

These Key Statistics present some of the most relied-upon findings from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). All results are from published reports or special tabulations. Where available, a hyperlink to the source report is given. Readers are referred to the reports for details that may be helpful in interpreting the findings such as the demographic or public health importance of the data, definitions of technical terms,and results for subgroups (by age, Hispanic origin and race, education, etc.). Standard errors (SE) were added to the listings starting in 2011-2015. Readers may find standard errors for older estimates in the hyperlinked published reports, if available.

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A

• • Adoption and nonbiological parenting
  • Attitudes
  • Condom use
  • Marriage and cohabitation
  • Parenthood and childbearing
  • Sexual activity
  • Work and family

B

• Birth control – See Contraception
• Births (mothers)
  • Age at first birth
  • Marital or cohabiting status of mother at time of birth
  • Number of children ever born (parity)
  • Premarital/nonmarital status of births
  • Attitudes about childbearing – See Attitudes: Parenthood and childbearing
• Births (fathers)
  • Age at first birth fathered
  • Marital or cohabiting status of father at time of birth
  • Number of biological children ever fathered
  • Attitudes about childbearing – See Attitudes: Parenthood and childbearing
• Birth expectations
• Breast-feeding
  • Initiation of breast-feeding
  • Duration of breast-feeding

C

• Child care arrangements
  • Working mothers
  • Attitudes about work and family – See Attitudes: Work and family
  • Child support (financial)
  • Frequency of child support
  • Amount of child support
• Childbearing – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Childlessness
• Children ever born/fathered – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Cigarette smoking in the last 12 months
• Cigarette smoking during pregnancy
• Cohabitation with the opposite sex
  • Current cohabitation status
  • Ever cohabited
  • Outcome of first premarital cohabitation
  • Attitudes about cohabitation – See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
• Condom use – See also Contraception
  • Condom use at first sex
  • Consistency of condom use
  • Attitudes about condom use – See Attitudes: Condom use
• Contraception
  • Ever use of contraceptive methods
  • Current use of contraceptive methods
  • Leading current contraceptive method by marital/cohabiting status
  • Leading method used at first sexual intercourse
  • Method used at last (most recent) sexual intercourse

D

• Depo-Provera^TM – See Injectable contraceptives
• Discontinuation of contraceptive methods
• Divorce and marital disruption
  • Marriage disruption
  • Attitudes about divorce – See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
• Douching, vaginal

E

• Emergency contraception – See also Contraception

F

• Family planning services
• Fathers/Fatherhood – See also Births (fathers) 
  • Fatherhood
  • Father involvement
• Fertility – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Fertility Awareness Methods – See Natural family planning and Rhythm method
• Forced intercourse

H

• HIV risk – See STD/HIV risk
• HIV testing – See STD treatment/HIV testing
• Hysterectomy – See also Sterilization (female)

I

• Impaired fecundity
• Implant contraceptives
• Infertility
• Infertility services
• Injectable contraceptives (Depo-Provera^TM and Lunelle^TM) – See also Contraception
• Intended pregnancy
  • Births reported by females
  • Births reported by males
• IUD (intrauterine device) – See also Contraception

L

LARC (long-acting reversible contraception) – See also Contraception

 

M

• Marriage
  • Ever married
  • Current marital status
  • Marriage probability
  • Outcome of first marriage (marital dissolution and divorce) – See Divorce and martial disruption
  • Attitudes about marriage – See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
• Menarche
• Mistimed pregnancy

N

• Natural family planning
• Nonbiological children – See Adoption and nonbiological parenting
• Nonmarital childbearing – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Nonvoluntary sexual intercourse – See Forced Intercourse
• Norplant^TM implant – See Implant contraceptives
• Number of children ever born – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Number of sexual partners in the past 12 months
• Number of sexual partners in lifetime

P

• Parity – See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
• Patch
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Pill (oral contraceptive pill)
• Premarital sex

R

• Remarriage
• Rhythm method
• Risk behaviors for STD/HIV – See STD/HIV Risk

S

• Same sex sexual activity – See Sexual activity between females and Sexual activity between males
• Separation – See Divorce and marital disruption
• Sex education
• Sexual activity between females
• Sexual activity between males
  • Oral/anal sex between males
  • Oral sex between males
  • Forced sex – males
• Sexual activity between males and females
  • Vaginal sexual intercourse
  • Oral sex – males and females
  • Anal sex – males and females
• Sexual intercourse – See Sexual activity between males and females
• Sexual identity and attraction
  • Sexual identity
  • Sexual attraction
• Smoking during pregnancy – See Cigarette smoking during pregnancy
• STD/HIV risk
• STD treatment/HIV testing STD
  • HIV testing
  • STD treatment
• Sterilization (female)
  • Percent ever having a female sterilization operation
  • Main reason for operation
• Sterilization (male) – See Vasectomy

T

• Teenagers – See also Sex education and Teen pregnancy
• Teen pregnancy – See also Teenagers
• Tubal sterilization – See Sterilization (female)

U

• Unwanted sexual intercourse
• Unwanted pregnancy – See also Intended pregnancy and Mistimed pregnancy

V

• Vasectomy
  • Prevalence
  • Main reason for operation

W

• Wanted pregnancy – See Intended pregnancy, Mistimed pregnancy, or Unwanted pregnancy
• Wantedness of Sexual intercourse