DATA RESULTS | ||
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| [Females]: What is your main reason for not doing anything |
| to keep you from getting pregnant? |
| [Males]: What is your main reason for not doing anything to |
| keep your partner from getting pregnant? |
| Response | Unweighted Frequency | Weighted Percentage | Standard Error | Lower 95% Confidence Limit |
Upper 95% Confidence Limit |
| Not sexually active / No partner | 509 | 41.5 | 1.7 | 38.2 | 44.9 |
| Didn't think was going to have sex / No regular partner | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| You want a pregnancy | 78 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 6.1 | 9.9 |
| You or your partner don't want to use birth control | 12 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.4 |
| You or your partner don't like birth control / fear side effects | 5 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
| You can't pay for birth control | 3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Lapse in use of a method | 3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Don't think you or your partner can get pregnant | 52 | 5.1 | 0.7 | 3.7 | 6.6 |
| You or your partner had tubes tied (sterilization) | 84 | 7.7 | 0.9 | 6.0 | 9.5 |
| You or your partner had a vasectomy (sterilization) | 73 | 6.8 | 0.8 | 5.2 | 8.5 |
| You or your partner had a hysterectomy | 124 | 11.3 | 1.0 | 9.3 | 13.3 |
| You or your partner are too old | 28 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 3.9 |
| You or your partner are currently breast-feeding | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| You or your partner just had a baby / postpartum | 5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.9 |
| Other reason | 85 | 7.6 | 0.9 | 5.9 | 9.3 |
| Don't care if get pregnant | 31 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 3.9 |
| Same sex partner | 11 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.5 |
| Partner is pregnant now | 21 | 2.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 3.8 |
| Among non-pregnant females ages 18-44 or males ages 18-59 |
| who are not using some type of birth control now, excluding |
| unknowns and refusals. |