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

• 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

 

Natural family planning

NOTE: In “Natural family planning or safe period by temperature or cervical mucus test,” to prevent pregnancy a woman checks her temperature or the consistency of her cervical mucus to determine her fertile days and abstains from intercourse on those fertile days. Also known as “symptom-thermal method.”

• Natural family planning use among women 15-44 years of age 2011-2015:
  • Percentage of women who have ever used natural family planning (among women who have ever had sexual intercourse): 3.3% (0.28)
  • Percentage of all women currently using natural family planning: 0.2% (0.05)

Source: Special tabulation by NCHS

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Number of sexual partners in the past 12 months

Percentage of men and women 15-44 years of age who have had five or more opposite sex partners in the past 12 months, 2002, 2006-2010 and 2011-2015:

	20021	2006 -20101	2011-20152
Men	4.6%	3.9%	4.0% (0.31)
Women	2.4%	1.8%	1.7% (0.17)

Sources:

¹NSR No. 46, Table 1
² Special tabulation by NCHS

 

NOTE: Includes partners with whom respondent had any type of sexual contact (vaginal, oral, or anal sex)

 

Number of sexual partners in lifetime

Median number of opposite-sex partners in lifetime among sexually experienced men and women aged 25-44 years of age 2002, 2006-2010 and 2011-2015:

	20021	2006 -20102	2011-20152
Men	6.7	6.0	6.1 (0.43)
Women	3.8	3.9	4.2 (0.08)

Sources:

¹Advance Data No. 362, Tables 10 and 11
²Special tabulation by NCHS

 

Percentage of men and women aged 15-44 years of age who have had 15 or more opposite-sex sexual partners in lifetime, 2002, 2006-2010 and 2011-2015:

	20021	2006-20102	2011-20153
Men	23.2%	21.6%	21.1% (0.72)
Women	9.2%	9.0%	10.1% (0.47)

Sources:

¹Advance Data No. 362, Tables 10 and 11
²Chandra A, Copen CE, Mosher WD. Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the United States: Data from the 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth. In: Baumle AK (ed). International Handbooks of Population, International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Volume VI: Springer Science and Business Media Dordrecht, 2013:45-66. (Available upon request at nsfg@cdc.gov).
³Special tabulation by NCHS

NOTE: Includes partners with whom respondent had any type of sexual contact (vaginal, oral, or anal sex)

 

 

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