Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

U Listing

• Unwanted sexual intercourse
• Unwanted pregnancy  - See also Intended pregnancy and Mistimed pregnancy

Unwanted sexual intercourse

• Percent distribution of females and males 18-24 years of age in 2002 who had sex before age 20 by how much first sexual intercourse was wanted:

  	Female	Male
  "I really didn't want it to happen at the time"	13.4%	5.8%
  "I had mixed feelings--part of me wanted it to happen at the time and part of me didn't"	52.7%	32.7%
  "I really wanted it to happen at the time"	33.9%	61.6%

  Source: Series 23, No. 24, Table 8 [PDF - 2.2 MB]

Unwanted pregnancy

See also Intended pregnancy and Mistimed pregnancy

• Percent of births in the five years before the interview to women 15-44 years of age in 2002 that were unwanted at the time of conception (i.e., the mother did not want  to have a baby then or at any time in the future): 14.1%.

  Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 21 [PDF - 4.7 MB]