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Child care arrangements

 

Working mothers

  • Child care arrangements of working mothers 15-44 years of age with at least one child under 13 years of age, 2002 (percents add to more than 100 because more than one response was allowed):
    • Grandparent or other relative: 35.1%
    • Daycare center or preschool: 22.6%
    • Nonrelative: 16.7%
    • Before or after-school care: 10.0%
    • Other parent or stepparent: 7.3%
    • Child's brother or sister: 5.6%
    • Family day care: 3.8%
    • Kindergarten or school: 6.9%
    • Other arrangement: 4.0%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 80 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

 

Child support (financial)

 

Frequency of child support

  • Frequency of child support reported by fathers 15-44 years of age who have at least one child under 19 years of age who does not live with him, 2002:
    • Does not contribute: 15.3%
    • Contributes once in a while: 8.9%
    • Contributes on a regular basis: 75.8%

    NOTE: Men with nonresident children were asked if they contributed money or child support in the last 12 months for those children.

    Source: Series 23, No. 26, Table 77 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

 

Amount of child support

  • Amount of child support given in the last 12 months by fathers 15-44 years of age who have at least one child under 19 years of age who does not live with him, 2002:
    • Median amount: $4,250
    • $3,000 or less: 36.0%
    • $3,001-$5,000: 22.9%
    • $5,001-$9,000: 23.5%
    • More than $9,000: 17.6%

    Source: Series 23, No. 26, Table 78 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

 

Childlessness

  • Childlessness status among women 15-44 years of age, 2002:
    • Percent childless (0 births): 41.6%
      • Percent temporarily childless (expect 1 or more): 33.0%
      • Percent voluntarily childless (expects none, physically able to have children): 6.2%
      • Percent involuntarily childless (expects none, physically unable to have children): 2.5%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table B [PDF - 4.7 MB]

 

Cigarette smoking in the last 12 months

  • Percent distribution of women 15-44 years of age by smoking experience 12 months prior to interview, 2002:
    • Never smoked in lifetime: 61.8%
    • Ever smoked in lifetime, but not in last 12 months: 10.1%
    • Smoked in last 12 months: 28.1%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 99 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

 

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who smoked during their most recent pregnancy occurring between January 1997 and 2002: 13.4%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 75 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

 

Cohabitation with the opposite sex

 

Current cohabitation status

  • Percent of men 15-44 years of age who are currently cohabiting with a female partner: 9.2%

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who are currently cohabiting with a male partner: 9.1%

    Sources:

 

Ever cohabited

  • Percent of men 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a female partner: 48.8%

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a male partner: 50.0%

    Sources:

 

Outcome of first cohabitation

  • Percent distribution of women 15-44 who ever cohabited with a male partner, by outcome of first cohabitation, 2002:
    • Intact current cohabitation: 13.2%
    • Intact current marriage: 33.6%
    • Dissolved marriage: 18.7%
    • Dissolved cohabitation: 34.5%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 49 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

 

First cohabitation disruption

  • Probability that the first cohabitation will disrupt (break up), by duration of cohabitation among women 15-44 years of age, 1995:
    • After 1 year: 21.0%
    • After 3 years: 39.0%
    • After 5 years: 49.0%

    Source: Series 23, No. 22, Table 15 [PDF - 5.6 MB]

 

Condom use

See also Contraception

 

Condom use at first sex

  • Percent reporting condom use at first sex:
    • Women 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 42.2%
    • Men 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 47.7%
    • Teenaged females 15-19 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 66.4%
    • Teenaged males 15-19 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 70.9%

    Sources:

 

Condom use at last sex, by HIV risk status

  • Percent reporting condom use at last sex among persons 15-44 years of age who had at least one sexual partner in the past 12 months, by HIV risk status, 2002:

 

At risk of HIV due to sexual behavior, drug use, or STD treatment in last year: Percent reporting condom use at last sex
  All Men Women
Yes 39.6 45.5 32.5
No 25.6 27.5 23.6

Source: Advance Data, No. 377, Table 7 [PDF - 608 KB]

 

Consistency of condom use

  • Consistency of condom use (during the prior 4 weeks) among unmarried men and women 15-44 years of age who ever used a condom and who had sexual intercourse during the 4 weeks prior to interview, 2002:

 

  None of the time Some of the time Every time
Men 71.4% 6.1% 22.5%
Women 72.8% 7.4% 19.8%

Sources:

 

Contraception

See also Condom use, Emergency contraception, Implant contraceptives, Injectable contraceptives, IUD, Natural family planning, Patch, Pill, Rhythm method, Sterilization (female), Sterilization (male)

 

Ever used contraceptive methods

  • Percentage of women who have ever used the specified contraceptive method, among women 15-44 who have ever had intercourse: 2002:
    • Any method of contraception: 98.2%
    • Male condom: 89.7%
    • Pill: 82.3%
    • Withdrawal: 56.1%
    • Female sterilization: 20.7%
    • Injectable contraception: 17.7%
      • 1-month injectable (LunelleTm): 0.9%
      • 3-month injectable (Depo-ProveraTm): 16.8%
    • Rhythm method: 16.2%
    • Male sterilization: 13.0%

    Sources:

 

Current use of contraceptive methods

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age using specified contraception in month of interview, 2002:
    • Not currently using contraception: 38.1% (currently pregnant, postpartum, trying to get pregnant, not having sex, etc.)
    • Percent using any contraceptive method: 61.9%
    • Pill: 19.2%
    • Female sterilization: 16.7%
    • Male condom: 14.7%
    • Male sterilization: 6.3%
    • Withdrawal: 5.4%
    • Depo-ProveraTm: 3.3%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 57 [PDF - 4.7 MB] (in this table, women may report using more than one method, such as condom and pill)

     

  • Leading current contraceptive method among women 15-44 years of age by marital/cohabiting status, 2002, and percent of contraceptive users using that method:
    • Never married, not cohabiting: pill (49.4%)
    • Currently married: female sterilization (29.8%)
    • Currently cohabiting: pill (33.2%)
    • Formerly married, not cohabiting: female sterilization (54.9%)

    Sources:

 

Used contraception at first sexual intercourse

 

Used contraception at last (most recent) sexual intercourse

  • Contraceptive method reported used by self or partner at last intercourse among men and women 15-44 years of age who had intercourse within 12 months of interview, 2002:
    • Any method: men (70.5%), women (75.2%)
    • Condom: men (29.5%), women (23.4%)
    • Pill: men (25.6%), women (22.4%)

    Sources:

 

 

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