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Child care arrangements

Working mothers

  • Child care arrangements of working mothers 15-44 years of age with at least one child under 13 years of age, 2002 (percents add to more than 100 because more than one response was allowed):
    • Grandparent or other relative: 35.1%
    • Daycare center or preschool: 22.6%
    • Nonrelative: 16.7%
    • Before or after-school care: 10.0%
    • Other parent or stepparent: 7.3%
    • Child's brother or sister: 5.6%
    • Family day care: 3.8%
    • Kindergarten or school: 6.9%
    • Other arrangement: 4.0%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 80 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Child support (financial)

Frequency of child support

  • Frequency of child support reported by fathers 15-44 years of age who have at least one child under 19 years of age who does not live with him, 2002:
    • Does not contribute: 15.3%
    • Contributes once in a while: 8.9%
    • Contributes on a regular basis: 75.8%

    NOTE: Men with nonresident children were asked if they contributed money or child support in the last 12 months for those children.

    Source: Series 23, No. 26, Table 77 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB

Amount of child support

  • Amount of child support given in the last 12 months by fathers 15-44 years of age who have at least one child under 19 years of age who does not live with him, 2002:
    • Median amount: $4,250
    • $3,000 or less: 36.0%
    • $3,001-$5,000: 22.9%
    • $5,001-$9,000: 23.5%
    • More than $9,000: 17.6%

    Source: Series 23, No. 26, Table 78 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB

Childlessness

  • Childlessness status among women 15-44 years of age, 2002:
    • Percent childless (0 births): 41.6%
      • Percent temporarily childless (expect 1 or more): 33.0%
      • Percent voluntarily childless (expects none, physically able to have children): 6.2%
      • Percent involuntarily childless (expects none, physically unable to have children): 2.5%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table BClick to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Cigarette smoking in the last 12 months

  • Percent distribution of women 15-44 years of age by smoking experience 12 months prior to interview, 2002:
    • Never smoked in lifetime: 61.8%
    • Ever smoked in lifetime, but not in last 12 months: 10.1%
    • Smoked in last 12 months: 28.1%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 99 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who smoked during their most recent pregnancy occurring between January 1997 and 2002: 13.4%
    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 75 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Cohabitation with the opposite sex

Current cohabitation status

  • Percent of men 15-44 years of age who are currently cohabiting with a female partner: 9.2%
  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who are currently cohabiting with a male partner: 9.1%
    Sources: Series 23, No. 26, Table 30 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB and Series 23, No. 25, Table 47 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Ever cohabited

  • Percent of men 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a female partner: 48.8%
  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a male partner: 50.0%
    Sources: Series 23, No. 26, Table 30 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB and Series 23, No. 25, Table 47 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Outcome of first cohabitation

  • Percent distribution of women 15-44 who ever cohabited with a male partner, by outcome of first cohabitation, 2002:
    • Intact current cohabitation: 13.2%
    • Intact current marriage: 33.6%
    • Dissolved marriage: 18.7%
    • Dissolved cohabitation: 34.5%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 49 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

First cohabitation disruption

  • Probability that the first cohabitation will disrupt (break up), by duration of cohabitation among women 15-44 years of age, 1995:
    • After 1 year: 21.0%
    • After 3 years: 39.0%
    • After 5 years: 49.0%

    Source: Series 23, No. 22, Table 15 Click to open PDF file 5.6 MB

Condom use

See also Contraception

 

Condom use at first sex

  • Percent reporting condom use at first sex:
    • Women 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 42.2%
    • Men 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 47.7%
    • Teenaged females 15-19 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 66.4%
    • Teenaged males 15-19 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse, 2002: 70.9%

    Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 54 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB; Series 23, No. 26, Table 43 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB; and Series, 23, No. 24, Table 15 and 16 Click to open PDF file 2.2 MB

Condom use at last sex, by HIV risk status

  • Percent reporting condom use at last sex among persons 15-44 years of age who had at least one sexual partner in the past 12 months, by HIV risk status, 2002:

    At risk of HIV due to sexual behavior, drug use, or STD treatment in last year:

    		 Percent reporting condom use at last sex
      All

    Men

    Women

    Yes

    		 39.6 45.5 32.5

    No

    		 25.6 27.5 23.6

     Source: Advance Data, No. 377, Table 7 Click to open PDF file 608 KB

Consistency of condom use

  • Consistency of condom use (during the prior 4 weeks) among unmarried men and women 15-44 years of age who ever used a condom and who had sexual intercourse during the 4 weeks prior to interview, 2002:
      None of the time Some of the time Every time
    Men 71.4% 6.1% 22.5%
    Women 72.8% 7.4% 19.8%

    Sources: Series 23, No. 26, Table 48 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB and Series 23, No. 25, Table 64 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Contraception

See also Condom use, Emergency contraception, Implant contraceptives, Injectable contraceptives, IUD, Natural family planning, Patch, Pill, Rhythm method, Sterilization (female), Sterilization (male)

 

Ever used contraceptive methods

  • Percentage of women who have ever used the specified contraceptive method, among women 15-44 who have ever had intercourse: 2002:
    • Any method of contraception: 98.2%
    • Male condom: 89.7%
    • Pill: 82.3%
    • Withdrawal: 56.1%
    • Female sterilization: 20.7%
    • Injectable contraception: 17.7%
      • 1-month injectable (LunelleTM): 0.9%
      • 3-month injectable (Depo-ProveraTM): 16.8%
    • Rhythm method: 16.2%
    • Male sterilization: 13.0%

    Sources: Advance Data, No. 350, Table 1 Click to open PDF file 1 MB and Series 23, No.25, Table 53 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

Current use of contraceptive methods

  • Percent of women 15-44 years of age using specified contraception in month of interview, 2002:
    • Not currently using contraception: 38.1% (currently pregnant, postpartum, trying to get pregnant, not having sex, etc.)
    • Percent using any contraceptive method: 61.9%
    • Pill: 19.2%
    • Female sterilization: 16.7%
    • Male condom: 14.7%
    • Male sterilization: 6.3%
    • Withdrawal: 5.4%
    • Depo-ProveraTM: 3.3%

    Source: Series 23, No. 25, Table 57 (in this table, women may report using more than one method, such as condom and pill) Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

     

  • Leading current contraceptive method among women 15-44 years of age by marital/cohabiting status, 2002, and percent of contraceptive users using that method:
    • Never married, not cohabiting: pill (49.4%)
    • Currently married: female sterilization (29.8%)
    • Currently cohabiting: pill (33.2%)
    • Formerly married, not cohabiting: female sterilization
      (54.9%)

    Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 60 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB and Advance Data, No. 350, Table 10 Click to open PDF file 1 MB

Used contraception at first sexual intercourse

  • Leading contraceptive method used at first intercourse among men and women 15-44 years of age who ever had intercourse, 2002: male condom
    Sources: Series 23, No. 25, Table 54 (all females) Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB; Series 23, No. 26, Table 43 (all males) Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB; and Series 23, No. 24, Tables 15, 16 (teenagers) Click to open PDF file 2.2 MB

Used contraception at last (most recent) sexual intercourse

  • Contraceptive method reported used by self or partner at last intercourse among men and women 15-44 years of age who had intercourse within 12 months of interview, 2002:
    • Any method: men (70.5%), women (75.2%)
    • Condom: men (29.5%), women (23.4%)
    • Pill: men (25.6%), women (22.4%)

    Sources: Series 23, No. 26, Table 50 Click to open PDF file 3.5 MB and Series 23, No. 25, Table 63 Click to open PDF file 4.7 MB

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