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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 7.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2007 Aug 28;76(4):273–277. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.06.009

Table 3.

Demographic characteristics among the study population of women obtaining prescriptions for hormonal contraception without a pelvic exam at PPCW

Clinic (n = 161) Online (n = 243) Χ2 p-value
n % n %

Insurance
No 109 68.4 116 48.3 15.549* < 0.0001
Contraception
Not hormonal 86 52.5 51 21.0 42.818* < 0.0001
Age (yrs)
 ≤16 21 13.0 2 0.8 101.734* < 0.0001
17 – 19 47 29.2 15 6.2
20 – 24 66 41.0 82 33.7
25 – 29 18 11.2 89 36.6
30 – 34 6 3.7 33 13.6
 ≥35 3 1.9 22 9.1
Latina ethnicity
No 143 88.8 232 95.5 6.373* 0.012
Race
Not White 31 19.3 35 14.4 1.668 0.197
Language
Not English 10 7.5 7 3.7 2.763 0.096
Education
< High school 35 21.7 3 1.2 109.491* < 0.0001
Completed HS or GED 54 33.5 23 9.5
Some college or 2 yr college 48 29.8 95 39.1
College graduate 22 13.7 98 40.3
Graduate school 2 1.2 24 9.9
Income
Don’t know 44 27.3 11 4.5 77.672* < 0.0001
< $5000 32 19.9 25 10.3
$5,000 – 9,999 24 14.9 31 12.8
$10,000 – 19,999 32 19.9 42 17.3
$20,000 – 39,000 21 13.0 84 34.6
 ≥$40,000 8 5.0 50 20.6
*

Statistically significant at p < 0.05 level.