Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

 

U Listing

• Unwanted sexual intercourse
• Unwanted pregnancy  - See also Intended pregnancy and Mistimed pregnancy

 

Unwanted sexual intercourse

Percent distribution of females and males 18-24 years of age who had sex before age 20 by how much first sexual intercourse was wanted:

	Females
	20021	2006-20102
"I really didn't want it to happen at the time"	13.4%	10.8%
"I had mixed feelings--part of me wanted it to happen at the time and part of me didn't"	52.7%	48.0%
"I really wanted it to happen at the time"	33.9%	41.2%

 

	Males
	20021	2006-20102
"I really didn't want it to happen at the time"	9.8%	4.8%
"I had mixed feelings--part of me wanted it to happen at the time and part of me didn't"	47.1%	33.5%
"I really wanted it to happen at the time"	43.1%	61.7%

Sources:

¹Series 23, No. 24, Table 8 [PDF - 2.1 MB]

²Series 23, No. 31, Table 9 [PDF - 723 KB]

 

Unwanted pregnancy

See also Intended pregnancy and Mistimed pregnancy

Percent of births in the five years before the interview to women 15-44 years of age that were unwanted at the time of conception (i.e., the mother did not want to have a baby then or at any time in the future):

	1982	1988	1995	2002	2006-2010
Unwanted	9.8%	12.4%	10.1%	14.1%	13.8%

Source: NHSR No. 55, Table 1 [PDF - 417 KB]