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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2013 Nov 12;89(4):314–321. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.11.004

Table 4.

Sensitivity Analysis of estimated a nnual unintended pregnancy rates

Expected annual number
of unintended pregnancies/
100 women 15–49
Expected changes in
unintended pregnancies /100
women 15–49
French failure rates 2000 2005 2010 2000 to 2005 2005 to 2010
60% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 3.16 3.49 3.26 0.33 −0.23
85% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 3.76 4.29 3.87 0.53 −0.42
45% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 2.80 3.01 2.89 0.20 −0.12

US failure rates
60% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 7.03 7.18 7.10 0.15 −0.08
85% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 7.63 7.99 7.71 0.36 −0.28
45% first year pregnancy rate among non-users 6.67 6.70 6.74 0.03 0.04