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

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

 

Patch

Percentage of women 15-44 who have ever used the contraceptive patch (among women who have ever had sexual intercourse), 2011-2015: 10.6% (0.41)

Source: Special tabulation by NCHS

 

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)

 

	20021	2006-20102	2011-20152
Percentage of women 15-44 years of age who have ever been treated for PID	5.1%	4.2%	3.4% (0.26)
Percentage of women 40-44 years of age who have ever been treated for PID	8.0%	5.1%	5.0% (0.76)

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 107 [PDF – 4.7 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

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Pill (oral contraceptive pill)

• Percentage of women 15-44 years of age in 2011-2015 who have ever used the oral contraceptive pill¹ (among women who have ever had sexual intercourse): 79.3% (SE 0.74, 42.5 million).
• Percentage of women 15-44 years of age in 2011-2015 who are currently using the pill²: 15.9% (SE 0.60, 9.8 million).

Source: Special tabulation by NCHS

Premarital sex

Percentage of ever-married men and women who had premarital intercourse:

	20021-2	2006-20103	2011-20153
Women (15-44 years of age)	84.9%	86.4%	88.8% (0.93)
Men (20-44 years of age)	91.3%	90.6%	89.9% (0.96)

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 42 [PDF – 4.7 MB]

²Series 23, No. 26, Table 22 [PDF – 3.5 MB]

³Special tabulation by NCHS

NOTE: Estimates for men for 2006-2010 and 2011-2015 are limited to ages 20-44 following conventions of table 22 of Series 23, No. 26 showing 2002 NSFG data.

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