Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

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Child care arrangements
- Working mothers
- Attitudes about work and family - See Attitudes: Work and family
Child support (financial)
- Frequency of child support
- Amount of child support
Childbearing - See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
Childlessness
Children ever born/fathered - See Births (mothers) and Births (fathers)
Cigarette smoking in the last 12 months
Cigarette smoking during pregnancy
Cohabitation with the opposite sex
- Current cohabitation status
- Ever cohabited
- Outcome of first premarital cohabitation
- Attitudes about cohabitation - See Attitudes: Marriage and cohabitation
Condom use - See also Contraception
- Condom use at first sex
- Consistency of condom use
- Attitudes about condom use - See Attitudes: Condom use
Contraception

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:

	2002¹	2006-2010²
Grandparent or other relative	35.1%	40.3%
Day care center or preschool	22.6%	23.0%
Nonrelative	16.7%	13.4%
Before or after school care	10.0%	11.6%
Other parent or stepparent	7.3%	9.8%
Child's brother or sister	5.6%	6.0%
Family day care	3.8%	4.1%
Kindergarten or school	6.9%	13.9%
Child cares for self, Head Start, or other arrangement	4.0%	4.5%

Note: Percentages add to more than 100 because more than one response was allowed.

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 80 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

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:

	Does not contribute	Contributes once in a while	Contributes on a regular basis
2002¹	15.3%	8.9%	75.8%
2006-2010²	13.5%	8.9%	77.6%

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

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 26, Table 77 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

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:

	Median amount	$3,000 or less	$3,001-$5,000	$5,001-$9,000	More than $9,000
2002¹	$4,250	36.0%	22.9%	23.5%	17.6%
2006-2010²	$6,875	32.4%	24.9%	24.6%	18.0%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 26, Table 78 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Childlessness

Childlessness status among women 15-44 years of age:

	2002	2006-2010
Total percent of women who are childless (0 births)	40.1%	42.6%
Percent who are temporarily childless (expect 1 or more)	31.5%	34.3%
Percent who are voluntarily childless (expects none, physically able to have children)	6.2%	6.0%
Percent who are involuntarily childless (expects none, physically unable to have children)	2.5%	2.3%

Source: NHSR No. 51, Table 2 [PDF - 543 KB]

Cigarette smoking in the last 12 months

Percent distribution of women 15-44 years of age by smoking experience 12 months prior to interview:

	2002¹	2006-2010²
Never smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime	61.8%	64.8%
Ever smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime, but not in last 12 months	10.1%	9.6%
Smoked in last 12 months	28.1%	25.6%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 99 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy

Percent of women 15-44 years of age who smoked during their most recent pregnancy occurring between January 1997 and interview in 2002¹: 13.4%

Percent of women 15-44 years of age who smoked during their most recent pregnancy ending between January 2002 and interview in 2006-2010²: 13.9%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 75 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Cohabitation with the opposite sex

Current cohabitation status

Percent of men and women 15-44 years of age who are currently cohabiting with an opposite sex partner:

	1982	1995	2002	2006-2010
Women	3.0%	7.0%	9.0%	11.2%
Men	n.a.	n.a.	9.2%	12.2%

n.a.: Data not available.

Source: NHSR No. 49, Table 1 & 2 [PDF - 419 KB]

Ever cohabited

	1995¹	2002^2-3	2006-2010¹
Percent of men 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a female partner	n.a.	48.8%	49.0%
Percent of women 15-44 years of age who have ever cohabited with a male partner	41.2%	50.0%	52.0%

n.a.: Data not available.

Sources:

¹Special tabulation by NCHS

²Series 23, No. 26, Table 30 [PDF - 5.21 MB]

³Series 23, No. 25, Table 47 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

Outcome of first premarital cohabitation

Probability that the first premarital cohabitation will remain intact, transition to marriage, or disrupt (break up) by duration of cohabitation among women 15-44 years of age, 2006-2010:

	By 1 year	By 3 years
Remain intact	67.0%	32.3%
Transition to marriage	19.4%	40.3%
Disrupt (break up)	13.6%	27.4%

Source: Special tabulation by NCHS

Condom use

Condom use at first sex

Percent of women and men 15-44 years of age reporting condom use at first sex:

	2002^1-2	2006-2010³
Women 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse	42.2%	51.6%
Men 15-44 years of age who ever had sexual intercourse	47.7%	57.8%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 54 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

²Series 23, No. 26, Table 43 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

³Special tabulation by NCHS

Percent of teenagers 15-19 years of age reporting condom use at first sex:

	2002	2006-2010
Females 15-19 of age who ever had sexual intercourse	66.4%	68.0%
Males 15-19 of age who ever had sexual intercourse	70.9%	79.6%

Source: Series 23, No. 31, Table 11 [PDF - 723 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:

	None of the time	Some of the time	Every time
Men, 2002¹	71.4%	6.1%	22.5%
Men, 2006-2010²	68.3%	7.0%	24.8%
Women, 2002³	72.8%	7.4%	19.8%
Women, 2006-2010²	71.6%	7.1%	21.3%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 26, Table 48 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

³Series 23, No. 25, Table 64 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

Contraception

Ever Use of contraceptive methods:

Percentage of women who have ever used the specified contraceptive method, among women 15-44 who have ever had intercourse:

	2002¹	2006-2010²
Any method of contraception	98.2%	99.1%
Male condom	89.7%	93.4%
Pill	82.3%	81.9%
Withdrawal	56.1%	59.6%
3-month injectable (Depo-Provera^TM)	16.8%	23.2%
Female sterilization	20.7%	19.5%
Calendar rhythm method	16.2%	18.1%
Male sterilization	13.0%	13.3%
Emergency contraception	4.2%	10.8%
Contraceptive patch	0.9%	10.4%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No.25, Table 53 [PDF - 4.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Current use of contraceptive methods:

Percent of women 15-44 years of age using specified contraception in month of interview:

	2002^¹	2006-2010²
Not currently using contraception(currently pregnant, postpartum, trying to get pregnant, not having sex, etc.)	38.1%	37.8%
Percent using any contraceptive method	61.9%	62.2%
Pill	19.2%	17.1%
Female sterilization	16.7%	16.5%
Male condom	14.7%	10.2%
Male sterilization	6.3%	6.2%
Intrauterine device (IUD)	1.3%	3.5%
Withdrawal	5.4%	3.2%
Depo-Provera^TM	3.3%	2.3%

Note: In this table, women may report using more than one method, such as condom and pill.

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 57 [PDF - 4.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Leading current contraceptive method among women 15-44 years of age by marital/cohabiting status and percent of contraceptive users using that method:

	2002^1-2	2006-2010³
Never married, not cohabiting	pill (49.4%)	pill (46.6%)
Currently married	female sterilization (28.9%)	female sterilization (30.2%)
Currently cohabiting	pill (33.2%)	pill (32.2%)
Formerly married, not cohabiting	female sterilization (54.9%)	female sterilization (55.5%)

Sources:

¹Advanced Data No.350, Table 10 [PDF - 1 MB]

²Series 23, No. 25, Table 60 [PDF - 4.5 MB]

³Special tabulation by NCHS

Leading method used 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 and 2006-2010: male condom

Sources:

Series 23, No. 25, Table 54 (all females) [PDF - 4.5 MB]

Series 23, No. 26, Table 43 (all males) [PDF - 3.5 MB]

Series 23, No. 31, Table 11 (teenagers) [PDF - 723 KB]

Method used at last (most recent) sexual intercourse:

Contraceptive method used by men 15-44 years of age or their partner at last intercourse among men who had intercourse within 12 months of interview:

	2002¹	2006-2010²
Any method	70.5%	75.1%
Condom	29.5%	33.1%
Pill	25.6%	23.8%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 26, Table 50 [PDF - 3.5 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

Contraceptive method used by women 15-44 years of age or their partner at last intercourse among women who had intercourse within 12 months of interview:

	2002¹	2006-2010²
Any method	75.2%	79.7%
Condom	23.4%	25.3%
Pill	22.4%	20.4%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 25, Table 63 [PDF - 4.7 MB]

²Special tabulation by NCHS

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