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**National      Center for Health Statistics      New Report Documents Trends in Childbearing, Reproductive Health**
**Embargoed for      Release 4 p.m., e.s.t., Thursday, June 5, 1997      Contact: Jeff Lancashire or Sandra Smith (301) 458-4800**

Series 23, No. 19. Fertility, Family Planning, and Women�s Health: New      Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth. 128 pp. (PHS) 97-1995**View/download      PDF******830 KB

      CDC's National Center for Health Statistics has issued an in-depth report      on childbearing and the sexual and reproductive lives of American women.      The report contains data from a nationally representative sample of women      15-44 years of age, who were interviewed as part of the **National      Survey of Family Growth**. The study produced a number of interesting      findings, including:

      The leading **method of      contraception** remains female sterilization (10.7 million women),      followed by the oral contraceptive pill (10.4 million), the male condom      (7.9 million), and male sterilization (4.2 million).      New contraceptive methods were used by small proportions of women in 1995,      such as hormonal injectables (used by 2 percent of women), hormonal      implants (1 percent), and female condoms (less than 1 percent).      Condom use among never-married women tripled between 1982 and 1995, from 4      to 14 percent. **Condom      use at first intercourse** increased from 18 percent in the 1970's to 36      percent in the late 1980's and 54 percent in the 1990's.      Ten percent of births between 1990 and 1995 were unwanted by the mother at      the time of conception, compared with 12 percent between 1984-88. For      black women, the decrease in **unwanted      births** between these two periods was particularly large -- from 29 to      21 percent.      About 6.1 million women had **impaired      fecundity** in 1995, compared with 4.9 million in 1988. Some of this      increase is due to the aging of the baby boom generation. The percent with      impaired fecundity was 8.4 in 1988 and 10.2 in 1995.      Approximately 2 percent of women (1.2 million) had an infertility visit in      the past year, and another 13 percent (7.6 million) reported an      infertility visit at some point earlier in their lives.      In 1995, eight percent of women reported that they had been treated for **pelvic      inflammatory disease (PID)** at some time in their lives, down from 11      percent in 1988 and 14 percent in 1982.      The percent of women who were douching regularly declined from 37 percent      in 1988 to 27 percent in 1995.      Medicaid was used to help **pay      for about one out of three deliveries** in 1991-95 (34 percent). Among      unmarried mothers and teenage mothers, two-thirds (68-69 percent) were      paid for, at least partly, by Medicaid, compared with 20 percent of births      to married mothers.      Women's average expected family size was 2.2 children per woman in 1995,      2.2 in 1988, and 2.4 in 1982.

The report,      "Fertility, Family Planning, and Women's Health: New Data from the      1995 National Survey of Family Growth," also includes data on sexual      activity; marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; breastfeeding; maternity      leave; child care; adoptive, foster, and stepchildren; use of family      planning and other medical services; HIV testing; and other information.      To receive a copy of the report, please contact NCHS Public Affairs      (301-458-4800) or send e-mail to **[email protected]**.

 

 
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