Data from the

NATIONAL SURVEY OF FAMILY GROWTH

Utilization of

Family Planning Services

by Currently Married Women

15-44 Years of Age

United States, 1973

Statistics, ba’3edon data coIIectedin 1973 and1974, are presented

on the use of family planning sen’ices by currently married women.

The percentage of women using such services and the location of

the services are distributed by race and age of the respondent and

by various socioeconomic variables.

DHEW Publication No. (PHS) 78-1977

Series 23

Number 1

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

Public Health Service

National Center for Health Statistics

Hyattsville, Md. November 1977
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STAT

DOROTHY P. RICE, Director

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Deputy Director

JACOB J. FELDMAN, Ph.D., Associate Director for Analysis

STICS

GAIL F. FISHER, Associate Director for the Cooperative Health Statistics System

ELIJAH L. WHITE, A mociate Director for Data Systems

JAMES T. BAIRD, JR., Ph. D., Associate Director for International Statistics

ROBERT C. HUBER, Associate Directorfor Management

MONROE G. SIRKEN, Ph. D., Associate Director for Mathematical Statistics

PETER L. HURLEY, Associate Directorfor Operations

JAMES M. ROBEY, Ph.D., Associate Director for Program Development

PAUL E. LEAVERTON, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research

ALICE HAYWOOD, Information Officer

DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS

JOHN E. PATTERSON, Director

ALICE M. HETZEL, Deputy Director

WILLIAM F. PRATT, Ph.D., chie~ Family Growth Survey Branch

MABEL G. SMITH, Acting chief Statistical Resources Branch

RITA U. HOFFMAN, Chief, Programming Branch

Vital and Health Statistics-Series 23-No. 1

DHEW Publication No. (PHS) 78-1977

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-18034
CONTENTS

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Selected Findings ...................................................................................................................................

Family Planning Ykits in the Last 5 Years .............................................................................................

Age, Race, and Ethnic Origin ............................................................................................................

Other Characteristics ........................................................................................................................

The Most Recent Viit ............................................................................................................................

Location of Visit .............. ..... .........................................................................................................

Race, Age, and Ethnic Origin ............................................................................................................

Other Characteristics ......................................................................." ................................................

Interval Since Latest Viit ..................................................................................................................

Initiator of Discussion .......................................................................................................................

Iist of Detailed Tables ...........................................................................................................................

Appendixes

I. Technicaf Notes ............................................................................................................................

If. Definition of Terms ......................................................................................................................

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LIST OF FIGURES

1. Percent of currently married women 15-44 years of age with and without a family planning vMt in

the last 5 years, by age: United States, 1973 ..................................................................................... 3

2. Percent of currently msnied women 15-44 years of age with and without a famiIy planning visit in

the last 5 years, by race: United States, 1973 .... .............................................................................. 4

3. Utilization of family planrdng services in the last 5 years by currently married women 15-44 years

of age, by race: United States, 1973 .................................................................. .............................. 6

LIST OF TEXT TABLES

A Number and percent distribution of currently msm-ied women 15-44 years of age currently using

the pilf and reporting no family planning visit in the last 5 years by whether or not they had medical visits, pelvic exams, and pap smears: United States, 1973 ........................................................... 2

B. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age reporting sterilization as current method of contraception by time since sterilizing operatiom United States,

1973 ................................................................................................................................................. . 2

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UTILIZATION OF FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES BY

CURRENTLY MARRIED WOMEN

15-44 YEARS OF AGE

Francis Notzon, Division of Vital Statistics

INTRODUCTION SELECTED FINDINGS

The National Survey of Family Growth

(NSFG), a periodic survey conducted by the

National Center for Health Statistics, was designed to provide information on fertility, family

planning, and those aspects of maternal and

child health that are closely related to childbearing. This report presents statistics on the use

of family planning services by current Iy married

women, based on data collected in Cycle I of the

NSFG. The percent of currently-married women

using family planning services and the location

of the services are presented according to race

and age of the respondent, and according to

various socio-economic variables.

The NSFG findings were based on personal

interviews with about 9,800 women aged 15-44

who were either ever-married or single with their

own children living in the household. The statistics in this report refer to the 7,566 women

who were currently married at the time of the

interview. Respondents were selected for participation in the survey on the basis of a multistage

probability sample representing the noninstitutional population of the conterminous United

States. The interviews were carried out in the

8-month period centering on September 13,

1973. Additional information concerning survey

design, sampling variability, and definition of

terms will be found in the Technical Notes at

the end of this report.

Fifty-four percent of currently married

women aged 15-44, approximately 14.4 million

women, talked at least once with a physician or

other trained person about family planning

methods in the 5 years before being interviewed

in 1973. Of this number, 84 percent talked with

their own physician in his or her office or in a

hospital, and 16 percent relied on all other

sources, including general clinics, family planning clinics, and hospitals and other places, for

their most recent family planning visit.

No significant change took place between

1970 and 1973 in the proportion of currently

married women with a family planning visit during the year prior to the survey. Based on data

from the 1970 National Fertility Survey, 31 percent of currently married women were considered to have made a family planning visit in

the year before the survey. 1

Using data from Cycle I of the National

Survey of Family Growth, the comparable figure

for 1973 was 30 percent. Even when contraceptively sterile couples were eliminated, the

1The directors of the 1970 National Fertility Study

are Norman B. Ryder and Charles F. Westoff, Office of

Population Research, Princeton University. The figure

cited above was computed from the computer data tape

for this survey, obtained from the Data and Program Library service at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

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Table A. Number and percent distribution of currently married

women 15-44 years of age currently using the pill and reporting no family planning visit in the last 5 years by whether

or not they had medical visits, pelvic exams, and pap smears:

United States, 1973

Type of medical care I

Number in IPercent

thousands distribution

All women using the pill . . .

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Medical visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,491

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96.8

No medical visit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 3.2

Pelvic exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,429 I

92.8

No pelvic exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 7.2

Pap smear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,436 93.2

No pap smear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 6.8

difference between the 1970 and 1973 figures

remained nonsignificant.

In the National Survey of Family Growth,

two criteria were used to determine if women

had made a family planning visit in the last 5

years. The first criterion was whether or not

they answered affirmatively to the question

“During the last 5 years, has a doctor or other

trained person prescribed or talked with you

about a method for delaying or preventing pregnancy?” The second criterion was whether or

not their reported date of the most recent

family planning visit occurred within the 5 years

prior to the interview.

These criteria may have failed to identify a

significant number of women with a family

planning visit. Since the question on date of

family planning visit referred to the last time the

respondent spoke with a physician or trained

person about family planning methods, the reliability of the responses depended on the importance the respondent attached to -the family

planning aspect of a medical visit. Thus some

respondents probably considered only the last

time they discussed a choice of a family pl~-

ning method as the “last time ,“ while others

counted the last time they had their prescription

for pills (oral contraceptives) renewed, had their

IUD checked, or mentioned in passing the subject of family planning during a medical visit

which was primarily for another purpose.

This problem appears to be reflected in the

findings shown in table A. For the 1.5 million

Table 8. Number and percent distribution of currently married

women 15-44 years of age reporting sterilization as current

method of contraception by time since sterilizing operation:

United States, 1973

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Tima since operation

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distribution

All women . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Lass than 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . .

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More than 5years . . . . . . . . . . . 1,479,488 33.9

women using the pill at the time of interview

but reporting no family planning visit in the past

5 years, 93 percent had a pelvic exam and a

similar percentage had a pap smear in the same

time period. The peIvic exam and pap smear a;e

widely recommended parts of a medical checkup

for renewal of a prescription for the pill, and in

many cases probably constituted a family pkmning visit within the intent of the questions. It

appears that the wording and sequence of the

questions missed some family planning visits of

this type. Despite the probable undercount of

women on the pill who had a family planning

visit in the last 5 years, 77 percent of the women

using the pill reported making such a visit in the

last 5 years.

It should also be noted that statistics on

family planning visits cited in this report do not

exclude women reporting sterilizing operations

for themselves or their husbands. Among women

reporting a sterilizing operation as their current

method of contraception, a significant proportion (33.9 percent) of these women or their

husbands had their operation more than 5 years

before the date of interview, and thus would not

have required a family planning visit during the

period under study (table B). This varies by age,

with fewer younger women (15-29 years of age)

having been sterilized and most of those who

were, having had their operation within the

5-year period. Among older women (30-44 years

of age), the proportion with family planning,

visits is undoubtedly significantly higher among

the s t ill -fecund women than among ,,&ataL

women.
FAMILY PLANNING VISITS

IN THE LAST 5 YEARS

Age, Race, and Ethnic Origin

A majority of currently married women (54

percent) made at least one family planning visit

in the last 5 years (table 1 and figure 1). For currently married women over the age of 20, the

percentage with a family planning visit in the

last 5 years declined significantly with each

successively older age group. A maximum proportion of almost 82 percent was attained in the

age group 20-24, and the minimum figure of 21

percent was recorded for the age group 40-44.

Decreases with age in the proportion of

women with a famiIy planning visit can be partially attributed to the differences in contraceptive methods used by women of different age

the pill and the intrauterine device (IUD)

were the most popular contraceptive methods

used by women aged 15-29. Although the

pill remained a popular method of contraception among women aged 30-44, the majority of them preferred sterilization and more

traditional methods of contraception such as

the condom, the diaphragm, foam, rhythm,

withdrawal, and the douche, which require

fewer medical visits. Table 7 shows that women

using the pill and the IUD reported a higher

proportion of family planning visits in the

past 5 years than did women using sterilization

2National Center for Health Statistics: Contraceptive

utilization among currently married women 15-44 years

of age, United States, 1973. Monthly Vital Statistics

Report. Vol. 25, No. 7, Supp. (HRA) 76-1120. Health

Resources Administration, Rockville, Maryland, Oct. 4,

gr;ups. An earlier reportz states that in 19~3 1976. p. 4.

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Wgrire 1. Percent of currently married women 1544 years of age with and without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, by age:

United States, 1973

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or the more’ traditional methods of contraception. This difference was probably due to the

more frequent medical visits for checkups,

prescription renewal, and the like, associated

with the use of the pill or IUD.

There was a significant difference between

the percentage of white women and of Negro

women with a visit in the last 5 years—55 percent for white women and 46 percent for Negro

women (table 1 and figure 2). Both white and

Negro wives with visits reached a maximum

percentage in the age group 20-24 (83 percent

for white women, 68 percent for Negro women),

and a minimum in the age group 40-44 (22

percent for white and 16 percent for Negro

women).

Among women of Spanish origin, 51 percent

reported at least one family planning visit in the

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Figure 2. Percent of currently married women 15AM years of age

with and without a family planning visit in the last 5 years,

by race: United Statas, 1973

lam 5- years. This placed them between the

percentage of white and of Negro women with a

visit. The percentage of women of Spanish origin

with a visit also varied significantly with age,

declining from 65 percent for the age group

15-29 to 38 percent for the age group 30-44.

Other Characteristics

The percentage of both white and Negro

women with a family planning visit in the last 5

years did not vary significantly with total family

income (table 2). Family income is presented in

this table as the ratio of total family income to

poverty level income, as defined by the U.S.

Bureau of the Census. Within each income category, in both racial groups, the proportion of

women with a visit declined with age.

The distribution of currently married

women with and without a family planning visit

in the last 5 years by region, race, and age is

shown in table 3. Among the four major regions

of the United States, the highest percentage (58

percent) of women with a visit was in the West

and the lowest (52 percent) was in the South.

For white wives, there was no significant difference among the four regions. For Negroes, the

percentage varied from 60 percent in the West to

43 percent in the South.

The proportion of currently married women

with a family planning visit declined with increases in parity. Table 4 shows that 62 percent

with O-1 live births had a family planning visit,

whiIe only 40 percent of the women with 5 or

more live births had a family planning visit.

Much of this decrease probably can be accounted for by the older ages of women tith

larger numbers of live births. As explained

earlier, these women tend to use contraceptive

methods that require less frequent medical visits.

Both white and Negro women currently out

of the labor force were more likely to have had a

family planning visit in the last 5 years than

were those currently in the labor force (table 5).

Unlike the statistics on live births, this difference could not be accounted for by differences

in age distribution, or use of contraceptive

methods.

There was not a significant difference in the

percent of women with a family planning visit

between Catholic women (52.9 percent) and

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Protestant women (53.5 percent) (table 6). When

white women only’ were considered, the difference between the two religious groups remained

not statistically significant. However, Negro

Catholics were much more likely to have had a

family planning visit in the last 5 years than

were Negro Protestants (62. 1 percent for Negro

Catholics and 43.8 percent for Negro Protestants).

The distribution of currently married

women with and without a famiIy planning visit,

by current method of contraception, is shown in

table 7. Those women reporting the IUD as their

current method of contraception were most

likely to have had a family planning visit in the

last 5 years (84 percent). Women reporting no

current method of contraception were least

likely to have had a visit (37 percent). Fortynine percent of the women reporting female or

male sterilization as their method of contraception had a visit in the last 5 years, in part

because many of the sterilizing operations took

place more than 5 years before the date of interview.

THE MOST RECENT VISIT

In CycIe I of the N7ationaI Survey of Family

Growth, data were also collected on characteristics of each woman’s most recent fa.n-dy planning visit. This included information on the

place of the visit, interwd since last visit, and

who initiated the conversation.

Location of Visit

Women who reported having talked to a

physician or other trained person about methods

of family planning in the 5-year period prior to

the date of interview were asked for the location

of the most recent visit. Their responses were

classified by the interviewers into the following

categories: own physician’s office, own physician in hospital, general clinic, family pkmning

clinic, hospital, and other places.

These data are useful in identifying medical

services obtained from the respondent’s own

physician and those obtained from all other

sources. For convenience, sources of family

pkmning services other than the respondent’s

own physician are referred to in this report as

organized medical services. Own-physician services are considered to be those obtained in the

office of the respondent’s physician or with the

respondent’s own physician in a hospital. Organized services include the baIance of the

place-of-visit categories listed above.

Over 11.5 milIion currently married women,

or 80.3 percent, went to their own physician’s

office for their most recent visit (table 8 and

figure 3). In the other categories, 3.3 percent of

the women with a visit saw their own physician

in a hospital, 8.3 percent went to a general

clinic, 4.6 percent went to a famiIy planning

clinic, 1.3 percent saw someone other than their

own physician in a hospital, and 2.2 percent

went to other pIaces. Using the dktinction discussed above, 84 percent (12 miIlion) of the

women with a family pkrming visit relied on

their own physician, while 16 percent (2.4 million) of the women used organized medical

services for their most recent visit.

Racer Age, and Ethnic Origin

Currently married Negro women were more

Iikely to have used organized services for their

most recent fandy planning visit than were currently married white women. Of those with a

visit in the last 5 years, 41 percent of the Negro

women and 14 percent of the white women

received their family pkmning information from

organized services. Eighteen percent of the

Negro and 8 percent of the white women relied

on general clinics; 17 percent of the Negro and

4 percent of the white women went to family

planning chics; amd 4 percent of the Negro and

1 percent of the white women utilized nonpersonal physicians in hospitzds for their most

recent famiIy phmning visit.

For Negro wives with a visit in the last 5

years, the percentage using organized services

was highest for the age group 15-19 (66 percent)

and lowest for the age group 25-29 (32 percent).

The percentage of white women using organized

services also peaked at ages 15-19 (24 percent)

but was l~west for the age group 30-34 (11 percent).

Fr,r women of Spanish origin, the proportion u~ing organized services (35 percent) fell

bet +veen the Negro and the white figures. The

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Figure 3. Source of family planning services utilized in the last 5 years by currently married women 15-44 years of age, by rata: United

States, 1973

percentage of Spanish-origin women relying on

organized services did not vary significantly with

age.

Other Characteristics

There is a negative relationship between

total family income and the use of organized

services for family planning visits, for both

women of all races and white women (table 9).

For women with a visit in the past 5 years, the

percentage using organized services on their

most recent visit ranged from 35 percent for

those with incomes below the poverty level to

11 percent for those with incomes more than

twice the poverty level. For Negro women there

was a significant difference in the use of organized services between those below the

poverty level (58 percent) and those with incomes more than twice the poverty level (31

percent), but the relationship was not consistent

for all four income categories.

For currently married women with a family

planning visit in the last 5 years, the percentage

relying on organized services was highest in t~e

West Region (22 percent) and lowest in the

North Central Region (11 percent) (table 10).

For white women the highest percentage was in

the West (21 percent), and the lowest was in the

Northeast (9 percent). There were no significant

differences among regions for Negro women

who used organized services for family planning

information.

For all racial groups, wives with five or more

live births were most likely to have used organiz ed services (28 percent); significantly

smaller proportions of women in the other

birth-order categories utilized organized services

(table 11). Regardless of the number of live

births, the proportion using organized services

was significantly higher for Negroes than for

white women.

For white wives with a family planning visit

in the last 5 years, there was no significant
difference between women in the Iabor force Interval Since Latest Visit

and women out of the labor force in the use of

public services (table 12). However, Negro wives

out of the labor force were more likely to utilize

organized services than were those in the Iabor

force.

In tabIe 13, the distribution of currently

married women by place of visit is shown for

Catholic and Protestant women. There was no

significant difference in the use of organized

services between these two groups. When white

women only or Negro women only were considered, the difference in the use of organized

services remained not statistically significant.

Table 14 shows the distribution of women

with a visit in the Iast 5 years by place of visit

and method of contraception used at the time of

the interview. The pill, IUD, and mde or female

sterilization are listed separately in the table.

For convenience, these methods are referred to

in this report as modern methods of contraception since they have been known or wideIy

accepted as methods of family planning only

since 1960. The more traditional methods—

diaphragm, condom, foam, rhythm, withdrawal,

douche, and other methods-are combined into

a single category because the number of women

using the individual methods was insufficient to

permit reliable comparisons.

Seventeen percent of the users of modern

contraceptives who had a fardy planning visit in

the last 5 years utilized organized medicrd

services, while only 13 percent of the users of

traditional contraceptives used these services.

Among the users of modern contraceptives who

had a family planning visit, those using the IUD

were most likely to have utilized organized

services (23 percent); those using the pill were

least likely to utiIize organized services (16 percent).

The majority of women who had a family

planning visit in the past 5 years had made their

latest visit in the 3 years before the survey (table

15). Fifty-five percent of them had their most

recent visit in the yeax preceding the survey, 74

percent had their most recent visit in the 2 years

before the date of interview, and 86 percent had

their most recent visit in the 3 years preceding

the survey.

For both own-physician and organized

services, more than half of the most recent visits

took place in the year prior to the survey-54

percent for own-physician services and 61 percent for organized services. For both Negro and

white women with a farqily planning visit in the

last 5 years, 55 percent had their most recent

visit in the Iast year.

Table 16 shows the distribution of women

by place of visit, income level, and interval since

last visit. For all four income leveIs, the majority

of women had made their most recent visit in

the year preceding the survey.

Initiator of Discussion

The discussion of family planning methods

was initiated most often by the respondent

rather than by the physician or other trained

person (table 17). Almost 62 percent of the

respondents indicated that they started the conversation, while 36 percent stated that the

discussion was begun by the physician or trained

person. However, those respondents using ownphysician services initiated the family planning

discussion more often than did the women

relying on organized services (63 percent and 53

percent, respectively).

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LIST OF DETAILED TABLES

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17.

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to race or Spanish origin and age: United States, 1973 .............................. ............ .................... .. ...............

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to income level, race, and age: United States, 1973 ...... .............. ..................... ...... ............ .........................

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to geographic region, race, and age: United States, 1973 ................. ............ .................................. .............

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to parity, race, and age: United States, 1973 .. ............ ...................... ...... ....................................... .............

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to labor force status, race, and age: United States, 1973 .. ........................................... .................. .............

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to religion, race, and age: United States, 1973 ...........................................................................................

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age with or without a family planning visit in the

last 5 years, according to current contraceptive status: United Stetes, 1973 ............... ............................................... ....... .............

Number and percent distribution of currently married women 1544 years of age by place of most recent family planning visit

in the last 5 years, according to race or Spanish origin and age: United States, 1973 ........................................................ .............

Number of currently married women 1544 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recant family planning visit, according to the ratio of family income to poverty level income, race, and age:

United States, 1973 .................. ......... ............. ..................... .................................................................... ..................................... .

Number of currently married women 15-44 years of ege with a family planning visit in the last. 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recent visit, according to geographic region, race, and age: United States, 1973 ............ ................ ........ .............

Number of currently married women 1544 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recent family planning visit, according to parity, race, and age: United States, 1973 ............................. ... ..........

Number of currently married women 1544 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recent family planning visit, according to labor force status, race, and age: United States, 1973 ........................

Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recent family planning visit, according to religion, race, and age: United States, 1973 ............................. ..........

Number of currently married women 16-44 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by place of most recent family planning visit, according to current contraceptive status: United States, 1973 ................. .............

Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 wars W race and Percent

distributions by interval since last visit, according to place of most recent visit: United States, 1973 .................................. ..........

Number of currantly married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years by income level end

percent distributions by interval since last visit, according to place of most recent visit: United States, 1973 ............... ... ........ .....

Number of currently married women 15J14 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years and percent distribution

by person who initiated family planning conversation, according to place of most recent visit: United States, 1973 .... ... .............

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27

28

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Table 1. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age with or

without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to race or Spanish origin and

age: United States, 1973

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women II Visit No

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women

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All races

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Number in thousands Percent distribution

54.0

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54.7

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300

907

1,815

2,443

3,071

3,731

10,976

26,646

1,028

4,949

6,063

5,248

4,632

4,726

14,380

728

4,043

4,248

2,805

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13,273

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15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

15-29

30-44

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

29.2

18.3

29.9

46.5

66.3

78.9

45.3

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

White

15-44 years------------------------ 24,249 100.0

915

4,469

5,579

4,768

4,199

4,320

669

3,715

3,949

2,592

1,416

931

953

246

754

1,630

2,175

2,782

3,389

1,127

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

73.1

83.1

70.8

54.4

33.7

21.6

45.8

26.9

16.9

29.2

45.6

66.3

78.4

54.2

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Negro

15-44 years------------------------ 2,081 100.0

4X

417

402

347

367

3::

253

187

101

60

849

502

347

12

164

215

246

308

827

268

559

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

47.4

68.2

60.7

46.5

29.0

16.2

50.7

65.2

38.3

52.6

31.8

39.3

53.5

71.0

83.8

49.3

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Spanish originl

15-44 years------------------------ 1,676

770

906

100.0

100.0

100.0

34.8

61.7

years ------------------------------

years------------------------------

.

‘The Spanish origin classification was made independently of racial classification and includes

women from both racial groups.

9
Table 2. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age

with or without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to income

level, race, and age: United States, 1973

ZEE!EIz

Percent distribution

X!_k_J&

Number in thousands

Income level, race, and age

BELOW POVERTY INCOME

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

2,033 1,045 988 100.0 51.4 48.6

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

993

1,040

1,681

857

824

326

706

339

880

632

249

153

286

701

800

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

71.1

32.6

52.4

73.7

30.2

46.8

28.9

67.4

47.6

26.3

69.8

53.2

;;.;

.

42.4

225

575

174

131

195

2,108

75

78

1,214

1?:

893

57.2

39.8

57.6

100-149 PERCENT OF

POVERTY INCOME

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

1,028

1,079

1,717

851

867

358

783

432

1,033

667

366

172

246

648

684

100.0

100.0

100.0

76.1

40.0

60.2

23.9

60.0

39.8

21.5

57.8

52.0

183

500

186

100.0

100.0

100.0

78.5

42.2

48.0

158

200

106

65

100.0

100.0

67.2

32.8

32.8

67.2

10
Table 2. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age

with or without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to income

level, race, and age: United States, 1973—Cm.

Income level, race, and age

All

women

No

visit Visit

150-199 PERCENT OF

POVERTY INCOME Number in thousands Percent distribution

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

WO

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

3,052 1,74C 1,313 100.0 57.0 43.0

15-29

30-44

e

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

1,487

1,566

2,742

1>361

1,380

27~

107

166

19,452

1,102

638

1,590

1,022

568

132

::

10,380

385

928

1,152

340

812

141

40

101

9,072

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

74.1

40.7

58.0

75.0

41.2

48.2

25.9

59.3

42.0

25.0

58.8

51.8

100.0

100.0

100.0

62.4

39.0

53.4

37.6

61.0

46.6

200 PERCENT OF POVERTY INCOME

All races

15-44 years--------------

15-29 years--------------------

30-44 years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

15-29 years--------------------

30-44 years--------------------

&fZ!?

15-44 years--------------

15-29 years--------------------

30-44 years--------------------

8,531

10,921

18,109

7,894

10,215

1,124

6,427

3,953

9,770

6,013

3,757

497

358

140

2,104

6,968

8,340

1,881

6,459

626

210

417

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

75.3

36.2

53.9

24.7

63.8

46.1

76.2

36.8

44.3

63.1

25.1

23.8

63.2

55.7

36.9

74.9

11

567

556
Table 3. Number and Dercent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age

with or without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to geographic

region, race, and age: United States, 1973

Race and age

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

12

NORTHEAST

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--:-----------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

NORTH CENTRAL

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

All II Visit I

No

women visit

Number in thousands

___.AZ&

2,151

3,223

4,860

1,921

2,939

459

215

244

7,014

3,115

3,898

6,615

2,938

3,677

357

150

207

2,829

1,615

1,214

2,594

1,476

1,119

219

135

84

3,819

2,317

1,502

3,617

2,190

1,427

175

104

71

2,544

536

2,009

2,266

445

1,820

240

80

161

3,194

798

2,396

2,999

748

2,251

182

46

136

All

women II Visit ‘o. Vlslt

Percent distribution

100.OI

100.0

100.0

100,0

100.0

100.0

100,0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100,0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100,0

100,0

100.0

T

52,6 47.4

75.1 24.9

37.7 62.3

Y’

76.8 23.2

38.1 61.9

47.61 52.4

62.8 37.2

34.3 65.7

54.5 I 45,5

1

I

74.4 25.6

38.5 61.5

-=4-J=

1

74.5 25.5

38.8 61.2

49.1 50.9

69.3 30.7

34.4 65.6

1
Table 3. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age

with or without a family DhIITIitIg visit in the last 5 years, according to geographic

region, race, and age: United States, 1973—Con.

Race and age

=

Number in thousands

ZsIEEIE

Percent distribution

SOUTH

All races

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years --------------------

years--------------------

Negro

15-44 years --------------

years--------------------

years --------------------

m

All races

15-44 years --------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

White

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years --------------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------

years--------------------

years--------------------

8,924 4,661 4,26: 100. c 52.Z 47.8

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

4,286

4,638

7,703

3,722

3,981

1,142

3,114

1,548

4,149

2,778

1,37C

485

1,172

3,09C

3,554

943

2,611

656

100. c

100.c

100.c

100.c

100.c

100.c

72.E

33.4

53.9

74.7

34.4

42.5

59.5

27.2

57.5

27.4

66.6

46.1

25.3

65.6

57.5

40.5

72.8

42.5

541

601

5,335

322

164

3,070

219

437

2,265

100.0

100. c

100.0

2,488

2,847

5,070

2,382

2,688

123

1,973

1,097

2,913

1,889

1,024

74

515

1,751

2,157

493

1,664

49

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

79.3

38.5

57.5

79.3

38.1

60.3

20.7

61.5

42.5

20.7

61.9

39.7

45

29

*13

36

100.0

100.0

78.2

44.4

*21.8

55.6

13
Table 4. Number and percent distributionof currentlymarried women 15-44 years of age with or without

a family planningvisit in the last 5 years, according to parity, race,and age: United States, 1973

Parity, race, and age

All Visit No

women visit

Percent distribution

All II Visit

I

No

women visit

II I

Number in thousands

0-1 PARITY

All races

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

White

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

Negro

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

2-4,PARITY

All races

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

White

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

3,775

1,975

1,800

3,248

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

9,917 61.9 38.1

7,426

2,491

9,010

6,845

2,165

756

515

241

14,199

6,142

5,451

691

5,761

73.4

27.7

63.9

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

26.6

72.3

36.1

5,122

639

314

287

27

7,223

1,723

1,526

442

228

214

6,976

993

5,983

6,440

872

5,568

477

74.8

29.5

41.5

55.7

11.0

50.9

77.8

38.5

50.9

78.3

38.8

49.1

25.2

70.5

58.5

44.3

89.0

49.1

22.2

61.5

49.1

21.7

61.2

50.9

1

4,467

9,732

13,125

3,474

3,749

6>685

i

4,022

9,102

936

406

530

2,531

3,150

3,535

460

Negro

15-44 years---------------------------

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

290

169

1,015

116

361

1,516

100.0

100.0

100.0

71.5

31.9

40.1

28.5

68.1

59.9

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

5 OR MORE PARITY

All races

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

White

15-44 years--------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

Negro

15-44 years --------------------------

years--------------------------------

years--------------------------------

~

147

2,383

2,115

2,0?;

389

3:;

.—

*36.3

61.3

60.9

*36.3

62.1

53.7

$<33.()

56.2

9;:

827

9,61

766

180

>k53

1,462

13288

*35

1,253

209

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

63.7

38.7

39.1

*63.7

37.9

46.3

67.0

43.8

*14

195

100.0

100.0

14
Table 5. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age with or

without a family planning visit in the last 5 years,

age: United States, 1973

according to labor force status, race, and

Labor force status, race, and age

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

IN LABOR FORCE

All races

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

White

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Negro

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

NOT IN LABOR FORCE

All races

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

White

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Negro

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

All Visit No

women visit

Number in thousands

11,084

4,950

6,134

9,829

4,443

5,387

1,128

&

15,562

7,089

8,472

14,419

6,520

7,899

953

482

471

5,737 I 5,347

3,754 1,196

1,983 4,151

5,210 4,620

i

3,426 1,017

1,784 3,603

472 656

308 175

165 481

8,642 6,919

5,265 1,825

3,378 5,095

8,064 6,356

4,908 1,613

3,156 4,743

+

481 472

298 183

183 288

2EIIEEE

Percent distribution

100.(

100.(

100.(

100.c

100.c

100.c

100.c

100. c

100. c

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

51.8 48.2

75.8 24.2

32.3 67.7

53.0 47.0

77.1 22.9

33.1 66.9

41.9 58.1

63.8 36.2

25.5 74.5

55.5 44.5

m74.3 25.7

39.9 60.1

55.9 44.1

L

75.3 24.7

40.0 60.0

50.5 49.5

15
Table 6. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age with or

without a family planning visit in the last 5 years, according

United States, 1973

to religion, race, and age:

3EEIZ

Number in thousands

Religion, race, and age

CATHOLIC

All races

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

White

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Negro

Percent distribution

7,661

3,326

4,335

7,338

4,056 3,605

879

2,726

3,457

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

47.1

26.4

62.9

47.1

52.9

2,447

1,609

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

15-29

30-44

73.6

37.1

3,882 52.9

3,169

4,169

183

106

76

17,301

2,323

1,559

847

2,610

69

+~24

45

8,053

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

73.3

37.4

62.1

77.5

40.9

53.5

26.7

62.6

37.9

22.5

59.1

46.5

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

PROTESTANT

All races

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

White

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

Negro

113

82

31

9,248

7,791

9,510

15,400

5,816

3,432

8,401

1,974

6,078

6,999

100.0

100.0

100.0

74.7

36.1

54.5

25.3

63.9

‘45.5

6,974

8,426

1,817

797

1,020

5,313

3,088

1,661

5,338

1,021

313

708

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

76.2

36.6

43.8

60.7

30.6

23.8

63.4

56.2

39.3

69.4

15-44 years------------------------

years------------------------------

years------------------------------

795

483

312

16
Table 7. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age

with or withouta family planning visit in the last 5 year% according to current contraceptive status: United States, 1973

Current contraceptive status

All women----------------

Noncontraceptors---------------

Contraceptors------------------

Sterilization--------------

Pill-----------------------

IUD------------------------

Traditional methods --------

2iEET!z

Number in thousands

26,646

8,104

18,542

4,365

6,690

1,781

5,706

14,380

2,977

11,403

2,133

5,163

1,494

2,613

12,267

5,127

7,141

2,232

1,527

288

3,094

iEllzEE

Percent distribution

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

54.0

36.7

61.5

48.9

77.2

83.9

45.8

46.0

63.3

38.5

51.1

22.8

16.1

54.2
Table 8. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of age by

place of most recent family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to race or Span-.

ish origin and age: United States, 1973

Own physician I

Organized medical services

1

All

visits Total

Gen- F=ily HosPiOffice Hospi- Tota~ plan- Other

tal eral ta1n ing places

clinic clinic

Race or Spanish

origin and age

J I I II I I I

All races

15-44 years----

Number in thousands

!,361 1,198 657 189 3161

*13

$C%l

*7o

*54

*2O

279

>Y13

90

>?58

>k60

*38

*2(J

*19

.4,380

728

4,043

4,248

2,805

1,561

995

.3,273

669

3,715

3,949

2,592

1,416

931

953

12,019 I 11,548 470

>’:18

124

161

%

;:19

416

531

3,192

3,669

2,437

1,285

905

11,354

514

3,068

3,508

2,347

1,226

885

10,937

491

2,881

3,315

2,238

1,160

853

525

196

851

579

369

275

90

.,920

>v6(j

260

156

G

*34

483

*21

*65

*52

*18

?c28

*6

147

*17

*4(3

>k49

9<14

*23

>?4

42

15-19 years--------

20-24 years--------

25-29 years--------

30-34 years--------

35-39 years--------

40-44 years--------

White

15-44 years----

507

2,997

3,458

2,312

1,208

871

560

>’clfj

116

143

75

>~48

>’c18

36

162

719

491

280

208

Jf60

393

3::

256

150

110

~c24

171

*51

198

129

>k56

*37

*12

161

15-19 years--------

20-24 years--------

25-29 years--------

30-34 years--------

35-39 years--------

40-44 years--------

Negro

15-44 years----

L

$c14

173

164

101

45

28

527

304

223

1%

80

71

50

30

296

;klfj

40

43

35

30

*7

111

>klo

62

27

31

*10

*22

119

9<4

~Q5

>*3

*4

>k5

*2

*4O

15-19 years--------

20-24 years--------

25-29 years--------

30-34 years--------

35-39 years--------

40-44 years--------

3%

253

187

101

60

849

502

347

$<15

175

173

116

51

29

553

Mj

*7

9<1

>?5

*z7

Spanish originl

15-44 years----

i<64

*46

74

*45

*25

*15

*22

*5

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

317

236

185

112

18
Table 8. Number and percent distribution of currently married women 15-44 years of

place of most recent family planning visit in the last 5 years, according to race ora~~ak~

ish origin and age: United States, 1973—Con.

II Own physician I Orzanized medical services

3EIE Family

planning

clinic

Race or Spanish

origin and age Other

places

I II

All races

15-44 years----

Percent distribution

100.0 83.6 80.3 3.3 8.3 4.6 1.3 2.2

*2.8

*1.6

*1.2

*006

15-19 years--------

20-24 years--------

25-29 years--------

30-34 years--------

35-39 years--------

40-44 years--------

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

LOO.0

LOO.0

100.0

73.0

79.0

86.4

86.9

82.4

90.9

70.6

75.9

82.6

83.7

78.6

89.0

82.4

*2.4

3.1

3.8

3.2

*3.8

*1.9

3.1

27.C

21.C

13.6

13.1

17.6

9.1

14.5

13.3

10.6

7.2

6.8

9.2

*3.1

7.6

*9-1

6.4

3.7

3.3

*3.2

*3.4

*1.8

2.4

*1.5

*2.5

*3.4

*2.()

*1.8

*().6

White

15-44 years---- 85.5 3.6 1.1 2.1

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-34

35-39

40-44

75.8 73.4

77.5

83.9

86.3

81.9

91.6

55.0

years--------

years --------

years --------

years --------

years --------

years --------

*2.4

3.1

;::

*3.4

*1.9

3.8

24.2

19.3

12.4

10.8

14.7

*6.5

41.2

12.1

10.5

2::

7.8

*2.5

17.9

*35.7

13.0

16.9

18.7

29.8

*11.9

13.0

*12.8

*13.3

*7.7

“::;

*2.2

*2.6

*1.3

*2.5 *1.9

2.4

*1.5

*2.3

*2.7

80.7

87.6

89.2

85.3

93.6

*1.1

*1.2

*0.6

*1.6

*0,5 *2.1

Negro

15-44 years---- 58.8 16.9

*22.7

20.1

10.6

16.7

*9.5

*36.2

4.4 *2.()

15-19 years--------

20-24 years--------

25-29 years--------

30-34 years--------

35-39 years--------

40-44 years--------

*33.9

57.0

68.5

62.1

50.8

49.0

*3~.2

56.1

64.8

53.9

44.8

46.7

62.1

*2.7

*().9

*3.7

*8.1

*5.9

*2.2

*3.O

66.1

43.0

31.5

37.9

49.2

51.0

34.9

*7.8

*8,1

*1.3

*1.9

*4.7

*3.()

*1.9

*2.7

*(3.5

*5.2

Spanish originl

15-44 years---- 65.1 14.0

14.7

*13.1

*4.7 *3.1

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

100.0

100.0

63.2

67.9

60.5

64.3

*2.7

*3.5

36.8

32.1

*4.9

*4.3

*4.3

*1.4

lThe Sp=ish Origin classificationwas made independentlyof raCid claSSificaticmand includes women from both racial groups.

19
Table 9. Nuber Of currently married women 15-44 yeara of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and percent distribution by place of most recent family planning visit, according to the ratio of family income

1973

to poverty level income, race, and age: United States,

With family

planning visit

in last 5

years

Own physician Organized medical services

Office

60.8

61.4

59.4

65.8

.—

64.4

69.2

36.9

35.9

37.8

64.6

65.0

64.0

67.2

65.8

69.7

52.7

65.5

~~31.9

Hospital

General

clinic T

Family

plan- Hospining tal

clinic

Other

places Total

Income level,

race, and age

Numoer in

thousands

Total

65.1

Percent

BELOW POVERTY

INCOME

All racea

15-44 years--

Percent distribution

1,045 100.0 9C4,3 34.9 16.5 11.6 *4.5

65.7

63.9

70.1

68.5

74.0

41.8

16.8

15.7

13.7

16.1

*7.6

31.4

+<23.4

39.1

15.6

14.2

18.0

14.2

13.1

*16.2

22.0

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

706

339

880

100.0

100.0

100.0

*4-3

4.4

9C4.3

34.3

36.1

29.9

31.5

*26.O

58.2

58.4

58.1

30.8

30.2

31.9

28.2

29.5

25.8

45,4

10.6

13.6

10.2

$f9.2

$<12.8

20.3

*22.4

*18.3

9.8

9.6

$<10.0

8.3

*9.7

~~5.6

19.4

*2.9

1.4

*109

*2.O

*~.7

*5.5

*1O .6

*().7

*3.3

*3.4

*3.O

*3*3

*4.(3

5.4

*4.1

*4.3

*3.9

W .0

White

15-44 years--

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

632

249

153

75

78

1,214

100.0

100.0

100.0

*4.1

*4.8

$C4.9

7’~5.7

4.0

$~4.6

*4.8

*4.2

~c4.6

9~4.7

-*4 .5

*1.9

Nemo

15-44 years--

15-29 years------

30-44 yeara------

100.0

100.0

100.0

41.6

41.9

69.2

*2.1

*2.2

*2.9

*0.9

*2.5

100-149 PERCENT

OF POVERTY

INCOME

All races

15-44 years--

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

White

15-44 years--

783

432

1,033

100.0

100,0

100.0

69.8

68.1

71.8

70.5

74.2

54.6

15-29 years----,--

30-44 years------

667

366

172

106

65

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

*3.5

*3-O

*3.4

*3.3

*1-O

*0.6

Negro

15-44 years--

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

67.0

*34 .5

<<~.5

*2.5

33.0

65.5

*18.3

*28.1

*1O .1

*34.4

*3.6

*3.O

*lo

20
Table 9. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and percent distribution by place bf most recent family planning visit, according to the ratio of family income to poverty level income, race, and age: United States,

1973—con.

With family

plan;i~~s:isit

5 years

Own physician Organized medical services

Hospital T GenTotal eral

clinic

F=ily

planning

clinic

Income level,

race, and age Hospital

Other

places

Num5er in

thousands

Total Office

Percent

150-199 PERCENT

OF POVERTY

INCOME

All races

Percent distribution

15-44 years-- 1,74( 100.0 74.2 70.5 *3.7 25.8 L3.6 *3.9

>?3.o

*5.4

5.6 9:2.7

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

100.0

100.0

71.5

78.8

68.5

73.8

28.5

21.2

15.2

7:1(3.9

6.7

*3-6

+:3.6

;:1.3

White

15-44 years-- 1,59(

1,022

56t

100.0

100.0

100.0

77.1

74.2

82.3

73.6 22.9 12.9 *4.5 ;~z.2

“ 15-29 years------

30-44 years------

71.6

77.3

T~2.6

*4.9

*4.3

25.8

17.7

53.7

14.3

*1O.4

*5.8

*2.2

>Y3.(J

*0.7

*2.8

*4.5

Negro

15-44 years-- 131 100.0 46.3

9:38.6

54.3

42.0

*35.4

48.8

21.4 *15.9 *9.8 *6.5

100

100

0

0

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

67

6!

*3.1

7~5.5

2.9

61.4

45,7

11.3

*26.4

*16.2

5.8

*15.2

*I6 .7

*13.4

*6.()

0.7

*6.4

*6.7

200 PERCENT ANO

ABOVE OF POVERTY

INCOME

All races

15-44 years-- 10,38C 100.0 88.7 85.8 3.1

15-29 years------

30-44 years ------

6,427

3,952

100.0

100.0

87.0

91.4

89.8

83.9

88.8

86.9

2:

2.8

13.0

8.6

10.2

::!/

5.5

4.0

*1.6

*0.8

*().7

White

15-44 years-- 9,770 100.0 2.4 *0.6

*0.7

*0.6

1.7

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

6,013

3,757

100.0

100.0

88.2

92.3

68.7

85.0

90.1

64.8

11.8

7.7

6.5

3.9

11.5

3.3

*1.1

1.4

2.1

*1.6

Negro

15-44 years-- 497 100.0 31.3 15.3 *3.O

15-29 years------

30-44 years------

358

140

100.0

100.0

65.8

76.1

*1.5

*lCI.2

34.2

23.9

12.3

*9.2

17.1

*1(3.7

*3.1

*2.7

*1.6

*1.4

21
Table 10. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and percent distribution by place of most recent visit,according to geographic

region, race, and age: United States, 1973

With family

planning

visit in

last 5 years

Own physician IOrganized medical services

Family

Total Office H;:fi- Total %; plan- H::~i- :;~s

clinic ning

clinic

Geographic

region, race,

and age

Number

in

thousands

2,829

Percent

100. c

NORTHEAST

All races

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

White

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

Negro

Percent distribution

88.3

85.7

91.6

90.9

88.7

93.9

57.5

53.3

64.4

88.6

85.7

93.2

89.8

86.6

94.8

62.0

63.4

59.8

85.2 3.C 11.7

14.3

8.4

9.1

4.5

J::

3.1

4.4

&::

3.5

*1.6

*2.2

>&o.8

*1.1

>tl.3

*o.8

*1.9

*1.3

1,615

1,214

2,594

100. c

100. c

100, c

82.9

88.4

87.7

85.6

90.5

56.9

53.3

62.9

84.7

81.4

89.6

86.1

1,476

1,119

219

135

84

3,819

2,317

1,502

3,617

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

11.3

6.1

42.5

46.7

35.6

11.4

4:;

20.9

24.1

*15.9

5.6

?<4.1

+~2.8

13.0

*1.4

*0.5

*8.o

*(3.9

*1.9

15-44 years---- *9.5

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

NORTH CENTRAL

All races

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

White

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

Negro

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

9<12.0

*14.6

3.2

*10.7

*3.7

*1.3

*1.7

*0.7

*1.1

.

*1.4

*1.3

——

*1.7

*o,8

*1.4

14.3

6.8

10.2

2>190

1,427

175

104

7L

82.4

91.7

53.2

57.0

47.8

13.4

5.2

38.0

6.5

*2.9

17.4

3.8

*0.9

9,14.1

*1.4

*0.6

*6.3

*:l_,8

*o.8

>ko.3

>?6.5

‘Clz.0

36.6

40.2

irg.4

*28.9

VC7.6

*4.3

*().5

.
Table 10. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and Percene distribution by Place of most recent visit,according to geographic

region, rack, and age; United States, 1973~C&.

With family Own physician

planning

visit in

last 5 years

Organized medical services

Hospital 1

Total Office

Geographic

region, race,

and age

Family

planning Hospi- Other

clinic tal places

General

clinic

Number Percent

th::-

Total

--tsands

SOUTH

Percent distribution

All races

15-44 years--- L4,661 100.c 80.2 78.0 2.2 19.8 10.1 5.8 *lO(J 2.8

3,114 100.c

1,548 100.c

15-29 years-------

30-44 years-------

80.5

79.6

83.3

78.5

77.0

81.2

*2.O

*2.6

2.1

19.5

20.4

16.7

10.2

10.0

9.3

*0.9

*1.1

*0.8

2.4

*3.8

2.6

White

15-44 years--- 4,1491 100.C

15-29 years-------

30-44 years-------

83.0

83.9

56.6

80.9

81.9

52.8

17.0

16.1

43.4

9.4

9.1

16.9

4.5

*2.9

21.1

*0.8

-*O.9

*2.O

*2.2

~~3.2

*3.4

Negro

15-44 years---

15-29 years-------

30-44 years------- 1

322 100.a

164 100.0

3,070 100.0

59.9

50.3

78.1

76.8

80.4

78.6

58.0

42.5

73.9

72.0

77.3

74.8

*1.9

5c7.8

40.2

49.7

21.9

23.2

19.6

21.4

15.8

18.9

12.5

13.2

11.4

12.3

18.9

25,3

4.6

J:;

4.4

*1.8

*2.5

*1.6

*1.8

*1.4

*1.6

*3.6

*3.1

3.2

*2.4

*4.6

3.0

WEST

All races

15-44 years---

15-29 years-------

30-44 years-------

White

15-44 years---

1,973 100.0

1,097 100.0

*

3.8

1,889 100.0

1,024 100.0

15-29 years-------

30-44 years-------

76.9

81.8

69.0

74.0

$c61.2

72.6

78.9

68.4

73.0

~’c61.2

23.1

18.2

31.0

26.0

;’:38.8

13.3

10.6

7’:17.3

;:12.3

~:25.3

*1.7

;’C1.5

*4.9

*8.1

*2.4

*4.1

>*O.7

9C1.1

EEzss

15-44 years--- ;’:0.7

15-29 years------- :“~1.1

30-44 years------- -WV

23
Table 11. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in the last 5 years

and percent distribution by place of most recent family planning visit, according to parity, race, and age:

United States. 1973

With family

planning visit

in last

5 years

Own physician Organized medical services

Family

Total Office H;:fi- T.tal :Z7 Ppn; ‘Ospi- ;;~es tal clinic clinic

Parity, race, and age

Number in

thousands Percent

100.0

0-1 PARITY

All races

15-44 years------------

Percent distribution

6.142 83.9 16.1 4.8 *0.9 2.1

5.1 *0.9 2.2

*2.4 7’<0.9 *1.2

4.2 *0.6 2.0

4.6 *0.6 2.2

7’CI.5 ~fo.7 $<0.6

14.5 *6.9 >?2.2

14.9 *6.9 *2.4

*1O.5 9~7.1

3.7 1.4 2.4

5.2 2.5 *1.4

2.3 *0.4 3.3

81.81 2.2 8.3

I

80.8

89.1 i::

83.0 2.2

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

White

15-44 years------------

5,451

691

5,761

100.0

100.0

100.0

83.2

89.4

85.2

16.8

10.6

14.8

8.6

*6.1

8.0

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

Negro

15-44 years------------

5,122

639

314

100.0

100.0

100.0

84.3

92.0

62.8

62.7

$,63.5

84.9

80.6

88.9

86.7

82.8

90.2

62.5

58.2

69.7

72.0

*58.2

73.4

78.6

*58.O

80.3

42.4

~’:51.9

40.7

81.9 2.5

92.0 -

60.9 #<l.8

15.7

*8.O

37.2

8.3

*5.2

13.6

61.5 ;~l.2

+c54.6 *8.9

37.3

~c36.5

15.1

19.4

11.1

13.3

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

2-4 PARITY

All races

15-44 years------------

287

27

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

13.1

;~18.9

7.6

10.3

5.1

6.8

7,223 ==4== 15-29 years------------------

30-44 years-----,------------

myll

15-44 years------------

3,474

3,749

6,685

75.9 4.7

85.8 3.1

83.1 3.6 2.9 I 1.3/ 2.3

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

+<100.o

100.0

100.0

78.2 4.6

87.4 2.8

l;.~

.

37.5

41.8

30.3

28.0

9.3

4.7

17.4

20.1

;~12.7

14.0

Negro

15-44 years------------ -24--.=

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

5 OR MORE PARITY

All races

15-44 years------------

290

169

1,015

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

White

15-44 years------------

9’X

827

9<49.1 >,<9.0

68.2 7+5.3

>~41.8

26.6

21.4

~c42.O

19.7

57.6

~c48.1

59.3

>~11.7

14.2

11.3

$:13.6

11.1

26.8

$<9.4

30.1

it

$<5.8 >,:3.0 ,*1.3

>k7.1.l ~’c7.2

9~4.5 *3.3- f,o.8

+

-1- $,51.4 ,*,6.6

74.8 $<5.5

38.8 +~3.7

15-29 years------------------

30-44 years------------------

$c61

766

ME?

15-44 years------------ 180

15-29

30-44 years

years

------------------

------------------

152

28 100.0

100.0

‘~51.9

36.3 +,4.4- a--a-= 24
Table 12. Number of currentlymarried women 15-44 years of age with afamily planning viait in the last

5 years and percent distributionby place of moat recent family planning visit, according to labor

force status, race, and age: United States, 1973

I With family plan- I Own physician I Organized medical services

l--ning visit in

Labor force last 5 years

status, race,

and age

Number in I

Total Office

Gen- Family

H;g~i- Total eral plan- Hospi- Other

clinic ning tal places

clinic Percent ] thousands

IN LABOR FORCE

All races

15-44 years--

Percent distribution

5,737 100.0 84.9 82.9 2.0 15.1 7.7 4.4 *1.O 2.0

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

3,754

1,983

5,210

100.0

100.0

100.0

Xoo.o

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

84.6

85.5

83.0

82.7

85.2

84.7

86.1

61.6

63.0

58.9

78.6

75.5

83.4

80.6

*1.6

*2.8

1.9

*1.6

*2.4

*2.9

*1.6

*5.4

4.1

4.6

3.3

3.9

15.4

14.5

13.0

13.7

11.6

35.5

35.5

35.6

17.3

19.9

13.2

15.4

7.8

7.3

6.8

7.0

6.5

16.6

17.4

*15.2

8.8

5.1

*3.1

3.4

4.4

*1.5

14.4

*0.9

*1.2

*0.9

*0.8

*1.O

*2.9

1.5

*2.9

1.9

*1.5

*2.5

*1.6

White

15-44 years-- 87.0

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

3,426

1,784

86.3

88.4

Negro

15-44 years-- 472

308

165

64.5

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

64.5

64.4

13.8

*15.6

4.7

*2.6

*3.4

1.5

*1.7

*1.4

2.3

NOT IN LABOR FORCE

All races

15-44 years-- 8,642 82.7

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

White

15-44 years--

5,265

3,378

8,064

80.1

86.8

10.3

6.5

8.1

5.5

3.4

3.8

1.9

*0.8

1.3

2.2

2.6

2.3

2.2

2.3

*2.4

84.6

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

WO

15-44 years--

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

81.6

89.2

53.2

77.1

86.0

48.6

4.5

3.1

*4.6

18.4

10.8

46.8

R

19.2

4.7

2.5

19.4

1.6

*0.7

481 5.9

298

183

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

55.4

49.5

52.6

42.1

*2.8

*7.4

44.6

50.5

15.2

25.8

18.9

20.1

*8.O

*2.5

*2.5

*2.1

25
Table 13. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in.

the last 5 years and percent distribution by place of most recent family planning visit, according to religion, race,and age: United States, 1973

With family Own physician Organized medical services

planning

visit in

last 5

years 1

Total

Religion, race,

and age Gen- Family

eral planclinic ning

clinic

Percent

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

Num-

)er il

thou.

sand:

k,056

1,447

L.,609

3,882

1,323

L,559

113

82

31

),248

H;;~i1.9

2.1

*1.5

*1,7

*1.8

*1.5

*8.7

*11.3

*1.7

1.2

1.4

*0.8

0.9

*1.1

*0,6

3.7

*4.1

*3.1

Other

places

2.1

2.0

*2,2

*~-7

Total

84.5

83.1

86.5

85.7

84.2

88.1

49.0

50.4

*45 .6

83.7

82.5

85.7

86.0

Office

81.3

80.0

83.3

82.9

I

CATHOLIC

All races

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

White

M-44 years----

15-29 yeara--------

30-44 years--------

Negro

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 yeara--------

PROTESTANT

All races

15-44 yeare----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

White

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

Negro

15-44 years----

15-29 years--------

30-44 years--------

Percent distribution

3.1

3.1

*3.2

2.9

15.5

16.9

13.5

14.3

6.8

::;

6.6

4.8

5.8

*3.3

4.3

81.5

84.9

47.6

50.4

*40 .4

80.3

*2.7

*3.2

*1.4

*5.2

3.3

15.8

11.9

51.0

49.6

54.4

16.3

2:?

*17 .5

*12 .3

*31-O

9.0

5.2

*2.9

*20 ,2

*19.7

*21.7

3.9

*1.9

*1.4

*4.6

*6.3

2.3

5,816

1,432

),401

79.0

82.6

82.7

3.4

3.1

3.3

17.5

14.3

14.0

10.0

7.3

8.1

4.3

3.2

2.7

1.8

3.0

2.3

j,313

),088

795

LOO.0

100.0

100.0

84.4

88.8

60.0

80.8

86.0

55.7

N

4.2

15.6

11.2

40.0

2;

17.6

3.2

*1.6

17.0

1.9

3.0

*1.7

*1.6

*2.()

61.9

57.0

59.2

50.3

~z.fj

*6.7

38.1

43.0

16.0

20.0

I

16.4

17.9

483

312

100.0

100.0
Table 14. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and percent distribution by place of most recent family planning visit, according to current contraceptive status: United States, 1973

Current

contraceptive

status

All women----

Noncontraceptors---

Contraceptors------

Sterilization----

Pill-------------

IUD--------------

Traditional

methods---------

With family

planning

visit in

last 5

years

Number

Pertl%l- cent

sands

.4,380 100.0

2,977 100.0

,1,403 100.0

2,133 100.0

5,163 100.0

1,494 100.0

2,613 100.0

Own physician

Total

83.6

83.5

83.6

82.4

84.4

76.9

86.9

Office

80.3

r

79.2

80.6

76.0

82.0

74.9

84.8

Organized medical services

Total

General

clinic

Percent distribution

3.3

4.3

3.0

6.4

2.4

*2.()

*2.1

16.4

16.5

16.4

17.6

15.6

23.1

13.1

8.3

7.5

8.6

9.7

8.1

10.1

7.7

Family

planning

c1inic

Hospital

4.6 1.3

I

3.6 2.4

4.8 1.0

*2.2 *3.O

5.1 *0.7

10.4 *0.4

3.1 *0.5

Other

places

2.2

3.0

2.0

*2.7

1.7

*2.2

*1.9

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Table 15. Number of currently married women 15-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years by race and percent distributions by interval since last visit, according to

place of most recent visit: United States, 1973

Own physician Organized medical services

IIAl 1

visits

Total T

GenTotal eral

clinic

HospitalOther

places

Race and

interval since

last visit

Family

planning

clinic

Office H::;i1

All races Number in thousands

Number of

womenl---------- 422414MI’1’548! 470!2’3’1!!’’”8/ ’57/ 18’1 3“

Percent distribution

All intervals----

Within

37-60

25-36

13-24

months

months

months

12

White

months

-----------

-----------

-----------

------- 33mm

Number in thousands

10,937 4161 1,920 I 1,010 Number of

womenl---------- 13,273 I11,354 483 l“ 279

Percent distribution

All intervals---- IT100.0 100.0 100.0

54.3 45.7 61.6

18.6 18.5 20.6

12.1 18.8 9.6

14.0 ;’:15.9 7.5

100.0

60.7

18.4

12.4

7.7

100.0 100.0 100 .(1

Within 12 months-------

13-24 months-----------

25-36 months-----------

37-60 months-----------

71.7

19.5

;~’.7

*3.2

Nezro Number in thousands

Number of

womenl---------- 953 I 560

100.0

52.9

20.2

13.9

12.2

I 5251 36 I 393 II 171 I 161

Percent distribution

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

54.0 -~35.5 59.3 55.1 70.3

19.9 +c25.6 14.1 16.0 9+ .7

13.4 $~’o.0 15.6 17.6 *11.”

12.1 ;~14.3 8.7 ;~8.2 +c6.4

All intervals----

I

Within 12 months-------

13-24 months-----------

25-36 months-----------

37-60 months-----------

55.5

17.7

14.6

10.7

*41 .0 9C43.4,

*~7 .‘ *27 .01

>Q9.8 9<5.3

7’,11.9 ~~24.3,

—.

lIncludes women with undetermined date of last visit.

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Table 16. Number of currentlymarried women 15-44 years of age witha family planning visit in the last

5 years by income level and percent distributionsby interval since last visit, according to place of

mcst recent visit: United states, 1973

Own physician IOrganized medical services

GenOffice Ho:~- Total eral

clinic 1

Family

plan- Hospining tal

clinic

Income level

and interval

since last

visit

All

visits

Other

places Total

Below poverty income

I

Number in thousands

Number of womenl--------

MM[ 63’1 ‘“l 3’511 1721 1211 ’251 *47

Percent distribution

=4=4 100.0/ *1OO.O 100.0 100.0 100.01 *1OO.OI *1OO.O

1 I 1! I 1 I

All intervals-------------

60.6 59.9 59.8 *60.1 62.1 57.9

14.9 16.7 16.3 *22.6 *11.5 *14.3

12.4 10.7 $qo.g *8.4 *15.6 *18.3

11,4 12.1 12.3 *8.9 *1O. 3 *8.7

72.4 *63.2

*9.2 *5.2

fqlJ.’ *31.6

*7.4

Within 12 months--------------

13-24 months------------------

25-36 nxmths------------------

37-60 months------------------

*50.O

*1O.4

*1O.7

*28.8

*27

100-149 percent of

poverty income

Number of womenl--------

Number in thousands

1,21411 84111 785 119 *4O

Percent distribution

r

100.0

51.1

21.1

11.7

13.4

I 1,226

100.0 *1OO.OI 100.OII 100.OI 100.0

51.7

21.8

10.9

13.0

I 1,290

*

All intervals------------- 100.0

~;t;4ti12 months--------------

25136

37-60

56.6

19.0

10.2

12.0

*28.4 *82.2

*44.0 *17.8

*1.3 ,-

*26.3

months------------------

months------------------

months------------------

150-199 percent of

poverty income Number in thousands

Number of womenl-------- 1,740 *64] 450[1 237] 97 *48 I *67

Percent distribution

All intervals------------- 100.0

Within 12 months--------------

13-24 months------------------

25-36 months------------------

37-60 months------------------

54.9

21.5

10.9

12.3

*69.8

*28.5

*0.5

*0.6

*58.7

*19.G

*19.9

*2.4

*74.2

*25.8

200 percent snd above

of poverty income Number in thousands

Number of womenl-------- 10,380 I 9,207]] 8>9021 305[ 1,1731/ 600 I 320 I 77 I 176

Percent distribution

m

All intervals------------- 100.0 100.0

54.3

18.9

12.4

13.4

100.0

Within 12 months--------------

13-24 months------------------

25-36 months------------------

37-60 months------------------

54.2

22.7

12.5

*8.5

67.1 *36.6

22.9 *18.5

*6.9 *25.3

*2.4 *19.7

45.3

*36.2

*5.1

*13.4

1

Includes women with undetermineddate of last visit.

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Table 17. Number of currently married women M-44 years of age with a family planning visit in

the last 5 years and percent distribution by person who initiated family planning conversation,

according to place of most recent visit: United States, 1973

Person who

initiated

conversation

Number of women

in thousands----

All

conversations-----

Respondent-------------

Trained person---------

Don’t remember

don’t know

not ascertained-------

All

visits

14,380

Own physician

T

Total Office

12,019 11,548

Hospital

470

Organized medical services

T

GenTotal eral

clinic

12,361 1,198

Percent distribution

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

61.5 63.2 64.0 42.4

35.9 34.1 33.2 54.0

2.5 2.7 2.7 *3.6

100.0

53.0

45.5

*1.5

Family

planning

clinic

657 189

Other

places

316

I 100.OI 100.OI 100.01 100.0

m

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ArrEINulxEa

CONTENTS

L Technical Notes ...................................................................................................................................

IL

L

II.

IrL

N.

Rek-bility of Estim&es ............. .....................................................................................................

Definition of Terms ................. ..........................................................................................................

LIST OF APPENDIX TABLES

Approximate standard errors for estimated numbers for white and total women: 1973 National

Survey of Family Growth .................................................................................................................

Approximate standard errors for estimated percentages expressed in percentage points for white

and total women: 1973 National Survey of Family Growth .............................................................

Approximate standard errors for estimated numbers for Negro women: 1973 National Survey of

Family Growth .................................. ..............................................................................................

Approximate standard errors for estimated percentages expressed in percentage points for Negro

women: 1973 National Survey of Family Growth ............................................................................

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APPENDIX I

TECHNICAL NOTES

Design of the Survey

The National Survey of Family Growth

(NSFG), initiated in 1971, is designed to provide

data on fertility, family planning, and related

aspects of maternal and child health. Field work

for Cycle I was carried out by the National

Opinion Research Center in 1973 and early

1974 with September 13, 1973, as the midpoint

of the interviewing.

A multistage probability sample of women

in the noninstitutional population of the conterminous United States was used. Approximately

33,000 households were screened to identify the

sample of women who would be eligible for the

NSFG, i.e., women between the ages of 15 to 44

years, inclusive, who were currently married or

previously married or who were never married

but had naturaI children presently living in the

household. In households with more than one

eligible woman, a random procedure was used to

select only one to be interviewed. Since the

interviews were always conducted with the

sample person, the term “respondent” is used

throughout this report as synonymous with

sample person. Interviews were completed for

3,856 Negro women and for 5,941 women of

other races. A detailed description of the sample

design will be presented in a forthcoming report

“Sample Design, Estimation Procedures, and

Variance Estimation for a National Survey of

Family Growth.”

The interview was highly focused on the

respondents’ marital and pregnancy histories, on

their use of contraception and the planning

status of each pregnancy, on the respondents’

intentions regarding the number and spacing of

future births, on maternity and family planning

services, and on a broad range of social and

economic characteristics. While the interviews

varied greatly in the time required for their

completion, they averaged about 70 minutes.

Quality control procedures were applied at all

stages of the survey. This included a verification

of listing completeness with unlisted dwelling

units being brought into the sample, a prelimi- “

nary field review of completed questionnaires

for possible missing data or inaccurate administration, a 10-percent sample recheck of all

households to be screened in the survey, observation of interviews in the field, and an independent recoding of a 5-percent subsample of

completed interviews.

Reliability of Estimates

Since the statistics presented in this report

are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been

obtained if a complete census had been taken, .

using the same questionnaires, instructions,

interviewing personnel, and field procedures.

This chance difference between sample results

and a complete count is referred to as sampling

error. In addition, the results me ~SO su’bject to.

non sampling error due to respondent misreporting, data processing mistakes, and nonresponse. It is very difficult, if not impossible, toobtain accurate measures of nonsampling errors .-

These types of errors were kept to a minimum

by the quality control procedures and otik%!

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methods incorporated into the survey design and

administration.

Sampling error, or the extent to which

samples may differ by chance from a complete

count, is measured by a statistic called the

standard error of estimate. Approximate standard errors for estimated numbers and percentages from this survey are shown in tables I and H

for the total and white populations and in tables

111and IV for the Negro population.

Table 1. Approximate standard errors for estimated numbers for

white and total woman: 1973 National Survey of Family

Growth

Size of estimate

50,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

100,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

200,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

10,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

20,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relative

standard

error

30.0

21.2

15.0

9.5

6.7

4.8

3.0

2.2

1.5

Standard

error

15,000

21,000

30,000

47,000

67,000

95,000

151,000

216,000

311,000

The chances are about 68 out of 100 that an

estimate from the sample would differ from a

complete census by less than the standard error.

The chances are about 95 out of 100 that the

differences between the sample estimate and a

complete count would be less than twice the

standard error. The relative standard error is the

ratio of the standard error to the statistic being

estimated. In this report, numbers and percentages which have a standard error that is more

Table i 11. Approxirmte standard errors for estimated numbers

for Negro women: 1973 National Survey of Family Growth

I t

Relative

Size of estimate

Stan da rd

standard

error

error

25,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.3

50,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.9

100,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.7

150,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.3

250,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.0

350,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8

500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7

750,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7

1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.0

6,000

9,000

13,000

16,000

20,000

24,000

28,000

35,000

40,000

than 25 percent of the estimate itseIf are considered “unreliable.” They are marked with am

asterisk to caution the user but may be combined to make other types of comparisons of

greater precision.

In this report, terms such as “sirnkr” and

“the same” mean that any observed difference

between two estimates being compared is not

statistically significant. SimiIarly, terms such as

“greater,” “less,” “larger,” “smaI1er,” etc.,

indicate that the observed differences are statistically significant. The normal deviate test with

a .05 level of significance was used to test all

comparisons which are discussed in the text. A

statistically significant difference is one ku-ge

enough that in repeated samples of the same size

and type as this one such a large difference

would be expected to be found in less than 5

percent of the samples. Lack of comment in the

text between any two statistics does not mean

the difference was tested and found not to be

significant.

Table II. Approximate standard errors for estimated percentages expressed in percentage points for white and total women:

1973 National Survey of Family Growth

Estimated percentage

Base of percentage 2 or 5 or 10or 20 or 30 or 40 or

98 95 90 80 70 60

50

100,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 4.6 6,4 8.5 9.7 T 0.4 10.6

500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 2.1 2.8 3.8 4.3 4.6 4.7

1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.9 1.5 2.0 2.7 3.1 3.3 3.3

3,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.8 1.2 1.5 1.8 1.9

5,000,000 0.4

1.9

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 0,9 1.2 1.4 1.5 1.5

7,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3 0.5 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.2 1.3

1?,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.1

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Table IV. Approximate standard errors for estimated percentages expressed in percentage points for Negro women:

1973 National Survey of Family Growth

Estimated percentage

Base of percentage 2 or 5 or lOor 20 or 30 or 40 or

98 95 90 80 70 60

50

5,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.9 12.3 17.0 22.6 25.9 27.7 28.3

10,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 8.7 12.0 16.0 18.3 19.6 20.0

50,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 3.9 5.4 7.1 8.2 8.8 8.9

100,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 2.7 3.8 5.1 5.8 6.2 6.3

300,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.0 1.6 2.2 2.9 3.3 3.6 3.6

500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.8 1.2 1.7 2.3 2.6 2.8 2.8

700,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7 1.0 1.4 1.9 2.2 2.3 2.4

1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 0.9 1.2 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.0

000

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‘(;,

.

,.,
APPENDIX II

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Family planning visit in last 5 years. –

Women were considered to have made a family

planning visit in the last 5 years if they answered

affirmatively to the question “During the last 5

years, has a doctor or other trained person prescribed or talked with you about a method for

delaying or preventing pregnancy?” In a few

cases those answering “yes” to this question

reported a date more than 5 years ago in

response to the question “When was the last

time you talked about methods of family planning with a doctor or trained person?” Such

women were not counted among those with a

family planning visit in the last 5 years.

Place of family planning vziit.–Women with

a family planning visit in the last 5 years were

asked where the last (most recent) visit took

place. The answers were classified in the folIowing categories:

Own doctor’s office or group of doctors.

General medical clinic, hospital outpatient

clinic, or public health cIinic.

Family planning clinic or office.

Hospital (inpatient).

Somewhere else.

Family planning visits that took place in a hospital were divided into subcategories as follows:

With respondent’s regular physician,

With an assigned physician,

With someone else.

Source of services. –Based on the information about “place of family planning visit” and

“the attendant providing service in a hospital,”

two types or sources of service were identified.

Own-physician services are defined as medical

services obtained by the respondent from her

own physician, whether in the physician’s office

or in a hospitaI. “Own physician “ includes group

practices and prepaid medical organizations.

Medical serwices obtained from all other sources

are defined as organized medicaI services. These

are services obtained by the respondent from

someone other than her own doctor at general

clinics, family planning clinics, hospitals, or elsewhere.

Contraceptive status. –Classification of contraceptive status was based on repIies to a series

of questions concerning use or nonuse of contraception. Nonusers are those women who are

classified as currently pregnant, seeking pregnancy, post partum, sterile for reasons other than

limitation of family size, and those not using

con traception for other reasons. Users are

classified according to the specific methods they

employ. If more than one method was being

used, the most effective method was coded.

Users include the contraceptively sterile, i.e.,

those women who had a sterilizing operation or

whose husbands had such an operation at least

part ly for contraceptive reasons. For convenience, the specific methods are grouped into

two broad categories. Modern contraceptive

methods include the pill, the IUD, and male and

female sterilization for contraceptive reasons.

Traditional methods include the diaphragm, the

condom, foam, rhythm, withdrawal, douche,

and other less common methods.a

3For more detail, see pp. 22-23 of reference cited in

footnote 2.

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Age. –In this report, age is classified by the

age of the respondent at her last birthday before

the date of interview.

Race. –Classification by race, based on interviewer observation, was reported as Negro,

white, or other. Race refers to the race of the

woman interviewed.

Spanish on”gz”n,–A respondent was classified

as being of Spanish origin if she reported her

origin or descent as Mexican, Chicano, MexicanAmerican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or other

Spanish.

Labor force status. –A woman is categorized

as being in the labor force if she was working

full-time or part-time, had a job but was not at

work because of temporary illness, vacation, or a

strike, or if she was unemployed, laid off, or

looking for work,

Pouerty level. –The poverty index ratio was

calculated by dividing the total family income

by the weighted average threshold income of

nonfarm residence, head under 65, based on the

poverty levels shown in the U.S. Bureau of the

Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-60,

‘No. 98, “Chzuacteristics of the Low-Income

Population, 1973,” table A-3. This definition

takes into account the sex of the family head

and the number of persons in the family. Total

family income includes income from all sources

for all members of the respondent’s family.

Reg”on. –Region refers to the part of the

country where the respondent was living at the

time of the survey according to the definition of

the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Parz”ty.–Parity refers to the number of live

births the respondent has had.

Marital status. –Persons are classified by

marital status as married, widowed, divorced,

separated, or never married. Married persons

include those who report themselves as married

or as informally married, such as living with a

partner or common-law spouse. Persons who are

temporarily separated for reasons other than

marital discord, such as vacation, illness, or

Armed Forces, are classified as married. Divorced persons are those whose most recent marriage was legally dissolved and who are free to

remarry. The annulled, while having the legal

status of never having been married, are classified together with the divorced. The category

“separated” includes those who are legally or

informally separated from their most recent

spouse due to marital discord. The “never married” include those who have never had a formaI

marriage and do not consider themselves in any

of the preceding categories. However, in the

NSFG, single women with children of their own

in the household were included and are separa- ,

tely classified. All tables in this report are based

upon currently married women or those whose

marital status at the time of the interview was

“married.”

Religion.– Women were asked whether they

were Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or something

else. Protestant includes most of the Christian

groups other than Roman Catholic. The “other”

category includes non-Christian religions and no

religion.

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S(,rif .5 14. .f)atu<)?8 l[;ulthRrsor Lrcc.v: if(InpozLJt,7 uz(i Facilities. Statistics on tile numbers. grc)~raphic distribut ion. and characteristics u f health resources including physicians, dentists, nurses, ot her health occupations, hospr]tals, nursing homes, mrtf outpatient facilities.

.Tfrifs 2(1. !kta on ,tlortality. Varinus st,]tist ics on mortality uthcr than JS included in reguiar annual or monthly

rc~x~rts. Special analyses IJV c,i IIse of death, agc , and other demographic varial~les; geogr~phic and time

series analyses; and statistics (1II characteristics of deaths nor ~vailahlc from lhr J itxl records, based on

s~mple surveys of those recor(is.

.S<mt s 11. Iktd on Nat fz[ity, Alurriag{,, ti7r (? I)ivorcc. Various statistics on nat, dity, marriage, ~nd divorce other

than as included in regular annual or monthly reports. Special analyses bv (!enl,~graphic variables;

gcc)~~aphic an(f tlrne series analyses: studies (>I fertility; and statistics on (bar.?cterist]cs of hirtbs not

~v~ilablr from the vital rec[!rds, based on sample stwtrys of those records.

,Sfmt.f 22. [hrta .tY/) m ●[h <. ,VotI(Ind .Ifi?rtalt t v aud .V(z!(zlity .Surz,evs. Disronlinued eftcctlvr 1975. Future reports

fruln ttiese sample surveys baseIl on vital rrr(,r(k will be included in Ser]es 20 and ?1 . respectively.

,Ymir.c 2.3. l)atd -from th c :Vatio7ta[ .S1/r7(\ (I / F’urnily ~;routh. --Statistics on fm-ti~ity, family formation and dissolution, f3mill plannit~g, .iII~{ rekrte(! maternal and infant health topics derived from a bienrual survey of

a ]I,+ti(]nwi(ic prohdbi]ity sdnjple of ever-married women 1544 years of age.

For a list of ti~le~ of reports publishtid in Ihcsc series, Write ICI: Scicntif’i( and Technics! Information Branch

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National Cn]ter lor He.dth Sta{)stl(s

. Public [Iralth Service

IIyattsville, \ld. 207X2