Table 1.

Sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics of study sample

	At time of sterilization			At time of survey
Variable	AA (n=61)	White (n=130)	p-value	AA (n=61)	White (n=130)	p-value
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age (mean)	32.5	35.7	<0.001	36.0	38.2	0.013a
Education (%)			0.20			0.48
High school or less	28.8	20.3		24.1	19.5
At least some college	71.2	79.7		75.9	80.5
Insurance status (%)			0.003b			0.10b
Public	30.0	11.0		21.3	10.3
Private or group	70.0	88.2		75.4	87.3
None	0.0	0.8		3.3	2.4
Marital status (%)			<0.001
Married	34.4	73.0		-----	-----	-----
D/S/W	8.2	8.7		-----	-----	-----
Cohabitating	26.2	8.7		-----	-----	-----
Single	31.2	9.5		-----	-----	-----
Annual household income						<0.001
<$20,000	-----	-----		35.0	13.1
$20,000–$50,000	-----	-----	-----	31.7	20.5
>$50,000	-----	-----		33.3	66.4
Reproductive characteristics
Number of children (mean)	2.9	2.2	0.014a	-----	-----	-----
Number of pregnancies (mean)	-----	-----	-----	4.5	3.1	<0.001
History of abortion (%)	-----	-----	-----	54.4	21.3	<0.001
History of unintended pregnancy c (%)	-----	-----	-----	80.0	54.5	<0.001
History of pregnancy while using a contraceptive method (%)	-----	-----	-----	41.4	26.6	0.045

AA = African American

^aWilcoxon rank-sum test

^bFisher’s exact test

^cIncludes both unwanted or mistimed pregnancies