Table 2.

Percentage distribution of background characteristics and mean age of mothers of births, by intention status group: Births to women aged 20–44 (unadjusted sample) from the NSFG 2002, 2006–2010

Characteristics of Mother	Intended	Mistimed <2 Years	Mistimed 2+ Years	Unwanted	Total
All Births	0.70	0.09	0.08	0.13	1.00
Age 20–24	0.24	0.36*†	0.67*‡	0.38*	0.30
Age 25–29	0.35	0.34†	0.22*	0.27*	0.33
Age 30–44	0.41	0.30*†	0.11*‡	0.35	0.37
Married	0.73	0.62*†	0.33*‡	0.42*	0.65
Cohabiting	0.16	0.27*	0.36*‡	0.28*	0.20
Not in Union	0.11	0.12†	0.32*	0.30*	0.15
First Birth	0.36	0.30	0.39‡	0.13*	0.33
Second Birth	0.38	0.40†	0.29*	0.25*	0.35
Third Birth or Higher	0.26	0.30	0.32‡	0.62*	0.32
Non-Hispanic White	0.65	0.63†	0.45*	0.44*	0.60
Hispanic	0.18	0.22	0.22	0.25*	0.19
Native-born Hispanic	0.07	0.07	0.11	0.13*	0.08
Foreign-born Hispanic	0.11	0.16	0.11	0.12	0.11
Non-Hispanic Black	0.11	0.12†	0.25*	0.25*	0.14
Non-Hispanic Other	0.07	0.03*	0.08	0.06	0.06
Born Outside United States	0.19	0.22	0.17	0.17	0.19
Delivery Paid by Medicaid	0.29	0.39*†	0.63*	0.56*	0.36
High School Graduate	0.86	0.86†	0.74*	0.72*	0.83
Her Mother’s Education
<High school graduate	0.24	0.33*	0.30*	0.37*	0.27
High school graduate	0.35	0.31	0.34	0.30	0.34
Some college or more	0.41	0.36	0.36	0.33*	0.39
Mean Age at Conception	28.5	26.8*†	24.0*‡	27.6*	27.9
n	2,784	352	455	670	4,261

Note: Proportions sum to 1 within intention status groups (column).

^*p < .05 (paired t test vs. intended)

^†p < .05 (paired t test vs. mistimed 2+ years)

^‡p < .05 (paired t test vs. unwanted)