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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contraception. 2017 Sep 4;96(6):420–425. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2017.08.014

Table 2.

Number of menstrual cycles and pregnancies during perfect use and typical use and the number of method failures, and the Pearl Index calculated from these numbers.

Pearl Index Pregnancies Woman-Years Cycles
Perfect 1.0 17 1661a 21,597
Typical 6.9 1273 18,548b 224,563
Method 0.5 102 18,548b 224,563
a

Calculated using the number of registered cycles

b

Calculated using the number of days since starting to use the application