Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

 

D Listing

• Depo-Provera^TM - See Injectable contraceptives
• Discontinuation of contraceptive methods
• Divorce and marital disruption
  • Marriage disruption
  • Attitudes about divorce - See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
• Douching, vaginal

 

Discontinuation of contraceptive methods

Percent of women 15-44 years of age in 2006-2008 ever using specified method who discontinued (stopped) use due to dissatisfaction, and leading reason for discontinuation:

• Pill:
  • Percent stopping use: 30.1%
  • Leading reason: Side effects (63.7%)
• Condom:
  • Percent stopping use: 10.8%
  • Leading reasons: Partner didn't like it (41.4%); decreased the woman's sexual pleasure (40.0%)
• Depo-Provera^TM:
  • Percent stopping use: 43.4%
  • Leading reason: Side effects (73.5%)
• Contraceptive patch:
  • Percent stopping use: 50.4%
  • Leading reason: Side effects (42.2%)

Source: Series 23, No. 29, Table 15 [PDF - 1.5 MB]

 

Divorce and marital disruption

 

Marriage disruption

 

Probability of first marriage disruption by duration of marriage among women 15-44 years of age:

	1995	2002	2006-2010
By 5 years	20%	22%	20%
By 10 years	33%	36%	32%
By 15 years	43%	*	40%
By 20 years	50%	*	48%

Source: NHSR 49, Table 5 [PDF - 419 KB]

* Figure does not meet standards of reliability or precision

 

Probability that a separation from a first marriage transitions to a divorce by duration of separation among women 15-44 years of age:

	1995	2006-2010
By 1 year	54%	53%
By 3 years	84%	79%
By 5 years	91%	86%

Source: NHSR 49, Table 8 [PDF - 419 KB]

 

Probability of second marriage disruption by duration of remarriage among women 15-44 years of age:

	19951	2006-20102
By 1 year	5%	10%
By 5 years	23%	31%
By 10 years	39%	46%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 22, Table 21 [PDF - 5.6 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

 

Douching, vaginal

 

	20021	2006-20102
Percent of women 15-44 years of age who douched at all in the 12 months before the interview	32.2%	23.2%

Sources:

¹ Series 23, No. 25, Table 106 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

² Special tabulation by NCHS