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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2009 Oct 29;81(3):254–260. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2009.09.009

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of study participants

Potentially at risk of
unintended
pregnancy*
(N=794)
Full sample
(N=1,271)

% %
Age, years
 <25 36.7 25.6
 25-34 35.5 31.8
 35-49 27.8 42.6
Mean/median age 29.4/27.0 32.6/32.0
Race/ethnicity
 Latina 90.6 91.8
 African American 2.5 2.2
 White 4.7 4.3
 Other 2.3 1.7
Primary language used at home
 Spanish 50.5 52.2
 English and Spanish, equally 12.2 12.0
 English 37.3 35.7
Primary country of residence
 United States 81.1 80.8
 US and Mexico, equally 0.6 0.7
 Mexico 17.4 17.6
 Other 0.9 0.9
Education
 Incomplete high school or less (0-11 yrs) 14.1 18.3
 Completed high school 24.7 24.5
 Some college (13-15 yrs) 30.0 27.9
 College or more 31.2 29.4
Mean/median years of schooling 13.5/14.0 13.2/13.0
School location for last grade completed
 United States 70.7 67.5
 Mexico 27.4 31.0
 Other 1.9 1.5
Parity
 Nulliparous 46.8 33.5
 One 18.8 15.1
 Two 22.1 26.9
 Three or more 12.4 24.5
Mean/median parity 1.0/1.0 1.5/2.0
Recruitment site
 Mall A 50.3 46.7
 Mall B 21.5 21.4
 Flea market 28.2 31.9
*

Excludes women who are pregnant, trying to get pregnant, infertile or sterilized.