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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2013 Nov 5;45(4):196–203. doi: 10.1363/4519613

TABLE 1.

Percentage distribution of U.S. women aged 15–44 who experienced a pregnancy resulting from contraceptive failure, by their feeling upon learning of the pregnancy, according to ethnicity and retrospective pregnancy intention, National Survey of Family Growth, 2006–2010

Feeling about
pregnancy
Hispanic White

Intended
(N=43)
Unintended
(N=100)
Intended
(N=74)
Unintended
(N=172)
Very happy 74.4 24.0 47.3 8.1
Happy 11.6 34.0 44.6 25.0
Neutral 7.0 12.0 4.1 20.9
Unhappy 4.7 14.0 4.1 22.1
Very unhappy 2.3 16.0 0.0 23.8
Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
χ2(4)=17.92
**

p<.01

Note: Percentages may not add to 100.0 because of rounding.