TABLE 2.
Percentage distribution of married or cohabiting women using any contraceptive method, by selected characteristics; and percentage with each characteristic who were using a LARC method—all according to country
| Characteristic | United States† | Australia | Austria | Bulgaria | France | Georgia | Germany | Romania | Russia | |||||||||
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| Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | Any | LARC | |
| Age | ** | ** | ** | ** | *** | ** | * | |||||||||||
| 18–24 | 12.2 | 14.6 | 6.2 | 4.2 | 7.9 | 13.8 | 6.7 | 9.0 | 11.3 | 5.6 | 8.5 | 13.9 | 7.1 | 1.7 | 7.6 | 6.7 | 11.5 | 24.7 |
| 25–29 | 18.8 | 10.9 | 14.6 | 14.9 | 17.3 | 17.1 | 15.8 | 13.7 | 16.0 | 8.7 | 20.8 | 24.1 | 15.6 | 4.9 | 22.1 | 7.3 | 20.7 | 27.5 |
| 30–34 | 20.0 | 11.8 | 21.5 | 5.9 | 20.5 | 21.3 | 24.9 | 17.4 | 20.1 | 26.0 | 25.0 | 23.6 | 21.0 | 14.1 | 33.1 | 10.3 | 19.5 | 34.3 |
| 35–39 | 24.7 | 12.2 | 27.1 | 8.4 | 26.1 | 27.2 | 25.5 | 21.3 | 27.3 | 38.0 | 24.7 | 24.9 | 28.1 | 14.6 | 23.6 | 13.8 | 21.1 | 38.5 |
| 40–44 | 24.3 | 4.2 | 30.6 | 2.9 | 28.3 | 26.4 | 27.1 | 18.6 | 25.2 | 36.3 | 21.0 | 24.8 | 28.2 | 10.4 | 13.6 | 7.2 | 27.3 | 33.1 |
| Parity | *** | ** | *** | * | *** | *** | * | *** | ||||||||||
| 0 | 20.3 | 2.4 | 22.3 | 6.8 | 20.1 | 11.9 | 3.8 | 6.7 | 20.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 18.7 | 5.6 | 11.3 | 4.6 | 2.2 | 5.7 |
| 1 | 15.9 | 18.2 | 12.0 | 2.5 | 24.0 | 21.8 | 35.5 | 17.9 | 22.2 | 21.6 | 19.5 | 14.8 | 28.9 | 9.3 | 40.9 | 8.6 | 46.7 | 27.9 |
| 2 | 34.4 | 14.0 | 37.9 | 11.1 | 40.8 | 30.0 | 53.0 | 19.0 | 36.1 | 37.1 | 54.9 | 25.2 | 36.7 | 13.8 | 37.7 | 12.2 | 41.4 | 36.8 |
| ≥3 | 29.4 | 6.9 | 27.8 | 3.1 | 15.1 | 20.6 | 7.7 | 11.9 | 21.5 | 38.8 | 22.0 | 30.0 | 15.7 | 13.6 | 10.1 | 11.6 | 9.7 | 40.6 |
| Early childbearing | * | *** | ** | |||||||||||||||
| At age 15–19 | 23.1 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 4.4 | 10.9 | 18.4 | 27.3 | 18.4 | 6.8 | 37.0 | 32.7 | 28.6 | 10.1 | 4.6 | 22.2 | 10.4 | 24.7 | 36.2 |
| At age 20–24 | 28.5 | 10.9 | 24.8 | 7.9 | 30.0 | 26.0 | 50.8 | 18.0 | 27.0 | 31.2 | 43.2 | 25.6 | 32.2 | 10.5 | 44.1 | 11.3 | 59.2 | 33.1 |
| No early birth | 48.4 | 8.7 | 65.7 | 6.9 | 59.1 | 22.2 | 21.9 | 15.6 | 66.2 | 24.0 | 24.1 | 12.7 | 57.7 | 12.2 | 33.7 | 7.4 | 16.1 | 23.4 |
| Union status | ** | * | ** | *** | ** | * | ||||||||||||
| Married | 76.6 | 10.2 | 79.6 | 5.2 | 67.7 | 25.1 | 87.6 | 18.2 | 62.5 | 30.8 | 81.3 | 25.8 | 79.0 | 11.5 | 92.4 | 10.5 | 85.0 | 33.5 |
| Cohabiting | 23.4 | 10.2 | 20.4 | 13.3 | 32.3 | 18.5 | 12.4 | 13.2 | 37.5 | 20.2 | 18.7 | 13.1 | 21.0 | 8.7 | 7.6 | 1.3 | 15.0 | 25.5 |
| Education | *** | |||||||||||||||||
| <high school | 16.9 | 8.5 | 28.3 | 3.1 | 14.1 | 19.1 | 17.6 | 8.0 | 16.6 | 27.2 | 6.6 | 23.6 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 26.3 | 8.2 | 4.7 | 27.9 |
| Completed high school | 54.3 | 10.4 | 31.4 | 7.5 | 67.1 | 24.0 | 52.9 | 19.2 | 41.9 | 28.6 | 59.6 | 25.6 | 66.1 | 9.6 | 61.8 | 10.4 | 47.0 | 33.4 |
| Completed college | 28.8 | 10.9 | 40.2 | 9.0 | 18.8 | 22.2 | 29.5 | 20.4 | 41.4 | 24.9 | 33.8 | 19.6 | 21.4 | 15.6 | 11.8 | 10.2 | 48.3 | 31.7 |
| Nativity | ||||||||||||||||||
| Native-born | 82.2 | 10.0 | 77.2 | 6.6 | 81.8 | 24.1 | 98.9 | 17.5 | 90.2 | 26.2 | 98.1 | 23.5 | 82.9 | 11.5 | 99.9 | 9.8 | 90.3 | 32.7 |
| Not native-born | 17.8 | 11.1 | 22.8 | 7.9 | 18.3 | 17.7 | 1.1 | 28.5 | 9.8 | 32.1 | 1.9 | 19.2 | 17.1 | 7.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 9.7 | 29.0 |
*
p<.05.
**
p<.01.
***
p<.001.
†
In addition to the characteristics shown, analyses for the United States included race and ethnicity.
Notes: Significance testing used chi-square tests. Percentages may not total 100.0 because of rounding. LARC=long-acting reversible contraceptive.