Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

 

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• Emergency contraception - See also Contraception

 

Emergency contraception

 

	2002	2006 - 2010
Percentage of women who had ever used emergency contraception (among women who have ever had intercourse)	4.2% (2.3 million)	10.8% (5.8 million)

Sources:

NHSR No. 62, Table 1[PDF - 251 KB]
Data Brief No. 112, Figure 1 [PDF - 679 KB]

 

Among women who had ever used emergency contraception, number of times it had been used, 2006-2010:

	2006 - 2010
Once	58.9%
Twice	24.3%
Three or more times	16.8%

Source: Data Brief No. 112, Figure 1 [PDF - 679 KB]

 

Among women who had ever used emergency contraception, reasons for use, 2006-2010:

• worried their birth control method would not work (45.0%)
• did not use birth control (48.8%)

   

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

Source: Data Brief No. 112, Figure 3 and 4 [PDF - 679 KB]