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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2017 Aug;21(8):1606–1615. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-2250-3

Table 3.

Women 15–44 years of age by disability Status, whether she wants a baby (or another baby), and whether she intends to have a baby (or another) at the date of interview: US, 2011–2013 (percentages are weighted national estimates)

Wants a baby (%) Intends to have a baby (%) Difference (%) Total sample size (N)
No disability
 All women 60.4 50.1 10.3 4500
 Fecundity status
 Contraceptively sterile 23.4**   0 23.4   746
 Impaired fecundity 60.8 41.8 19.0   508
 Fecund 71.1 66.1   5.0 3246
Labor force status last week
 In the labor force 57.7 47.1* 10.6 2678
 Not in the labor force 65.0 55.4*   9.6 1822
Disability
 All women 61.4 43.3 18.1 1101
Fecundity Status
 Contraceptively sterile 37.7   0 37.7   233
 Impaired fecundity 64.2 39.6 24.6   224
 Fecund 69.5 61.6   7.9   644
Labor force status last week
 In the labor force 58.7 39.6 19.1   492
 Not in the labor force 64.2 47.1 17.1   609
*

Significant at 5% level

**

Significant across disability at the 1% level with a chi square test

***

Significant at.1% level

^

Significant at 10% level