Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

Key Statistics present some of the most relied-upon findings from the National Survey of Family Growth. Estimates are shown for 2015-2017 data for women and men ages 15-49. Most estimates are based on special tabulations using SUDAAN Proc Descript and SAS PROC Surveymeans and standard errors (SE) are included with each estimate. Estimates based on published reports include a hyperlink to the report for more information. All estimates meet NCHS guidelines for presentation of proportions. Key Statistics for women and men ages 15-44 based on 2002, 2006-2010, and 2011-2015 NSFG data are on this website: Archived NSFG Key Statistics.

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A

• Adoption and nonbiological parenting

B

• Birth control – See Contraception
• Births (as reported by women)
  • Age at first birth
  • Had a birth before age 20
  • Number of children ever born (parity)
  • Marital or cohabiting status of mother at time of birth
  • Premarital/nonmarital status of births
• Births (as reported by men)
  • Age at first birth he fathered
  • Fathered a biological child before age 20
  • Number of biological children ever fathered
  • Marital or cohabiting status of father at time of birth
• Birth expectations among women and men
• Breastfeeding
  • Initiation of breastfeeding
  • Duration of breastfeeding

C

• Childlessness
• Children ever born/fathered – See Births (as reported by women) and Births (as reported by men)
• Cigarette smoking
  • In the last 12 months
  • During most recent pregnancy

• Cohabitation with the opposite sex
  • Currently cohabiting
  • Ever cohabited
• Condom use – See also Contraception
  • Condom use at first sex
  • Consistency of condom use
• Contraception
  • Ever use of contraceptive methods
  • Current use of contraceptive methods
  • Leading current contraceptive method by marital/cohabiting status
  • Leading method used at first sexual intercourse
  • Method used at last (most recent) sexual intercourse
  • Contraceptive method discontinuation

D

• Depo-Provera^TM – See Contraception
• Discontinuation of contraceptive methods – See Contraception
• Douching, vaginal

E

• Emergency contraception – See also Contraception

F

• Family planning and related medical services
• Father’s living arrangement with his children
• Fertility – See Births (as reported by women) and Births (as reported by men)
• Fertility Awareness Methods – See Contraception
• Forced or nonvoluntary intercourse for women and men

H

• HIV risk – See STD/HIV risk
• HIV testing
• Hysterectomy – See Sterilization (female)

I

• Impaired fecundity
• Infertility
• Infertility services
• Intendedness of pregnancy
  • Intendedness of births as reported by women, including extent of mistimed if “too soon”
  • Intendedness of births as reported by men

L

LARC (long-acting reversible contraception) – See  Contraception

 

M

• Marriage and cohabitation (opposite-sex spouses and partners)
  • Ever married
  • Current marital or cohabiting status
  • Probability of first marriage
• Menarche
• Mistimed pregnancy – See Intendedness of Pregnancy

N

• Nonmarital childbearing – See Births (as reported by women) and Births (as reported by men)
• Nonvoluntary sexual intercourse – See Forced or nonvoluntary intercourse for women and men
• Norplant^TM implant – See Contraception
• Number of children ever born – See Births (as reported by women) and Births (as reported by men)
• Number of sexual partners in lifetime

P

• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Premarital sex

R

• Risk behaviors for STD/HIV – See STD/HIV Risk

S

• Sexual activity between opposite-sex partners
  • Vaginal (sexual) intercourse
  • Oral sex between women and men
  • Anal sex between women and men

• Sexual activity between same-sex partners
  • Sexual activity between women
  • Sexual activity between men

• Sexual orientation and attraction
  • Sexual orientation
  • Sexual attraction
• Smoking during pregnancy – See Cigarette smoking during pregnancy
• STD/HIV risk
• STD/HIV testing – See Family planning HIV testing
• STD treatment – See STD/HIV risk
• Sterilization (female)
  • Percent ever having a female sterilization operation, by type of operation
  • Main reason for operation
• Sterilization (male) – See Vasectomy

T

• Teenagers

U

• Unwanted pregnancy – See Intendedness of pregnancy

V

• Vasectomy – See Contraception

W

• Wantedness of sexual intercourse – See Teenagers