Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth - E Listing

• Emergency contraception – See also Contraception

 

Emergency contraception

 

	20021-2	2006 – 20101-2	2011 – 20153
Percentage of women who had ever used emergency contraception (among women who have ever had sexual intercourse)	4.2%	10.8%	20.0% (SE 0.70)

Sources:

¹NHSR No. 62, Table 1[PDF – 251 KB]
²Data Brief No. 112, Figure 1 [PDF – 679 KB]
³Special tabulation by NCHS

 

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Among women who had ever used emergency contraception, number of times it had been used:

	2006 – 20101	2011 – 20152
Once	58.9%	56.1% (1.78)
Twice	24.3%	24.8% (1.46)
Three or more times	16.8%	19.1% (1.29)

Sources:

¹Data Brief No. 112, Figure 1 [PDF – 679 KB]
²Special tabulation by NCHS

 

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Among women who had ever used emergency contraception, reasons for use, 2011-2015:

• worried their birth control method would not work (39.9%, SE 1.48)
• did not use birth control (50.9%, SE 1.64)

 

Note: Women could choose either or both reasons. Women could also report “some other reason” (not shown here).

Source: Special tabulation by NCHS

 

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