Table 3.
Characteristic | Total Population (n = 1,014)a | Visited a Doctor (n = 168) | Doctor Diagnosis of Infertilityb (n = 98) | Doctor Diagnosis of Female Infertilityb (n = 63) | ||||
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No. | %c | No. | %c | No. | %c | No. | %c | |
Age at interview, years | ||||||||
22–29 | 60 | 5.9 | 2 | 3.3 | 1 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
30–39 | 546 | 53.9 | 89 | 16.3 | 50 | 9.2 | 31 | 5.7 |
40–45 | 408 | 40.2 | 77 | 18.9 | 47 | 11.5 | 32 | 7.8 |
Race/ethnicity | ||||||||
White | 679 | 67.4 | 134 | 19.7 | 81 | 11.9 | 53 | 7.8 |
Black | 287 | 28.5 | 24 | 8.4 | 13 | 4.5 | 8 | 2.8 |
Other | 42 | 4.2 | 9 | 21.4 | 4 | 9.5 | 2 | 4.8 |
Missing | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Education | ||||||||
Up to high school graduation | 45 | 4.4 | 5 | 11.1 | 3 | 6.7 | 3 | 6.7 |
Some college | 246 | 24.3 | 32 | 13.0 | 21 | 8.5 | 15 | 6.1 |
College | 371 | 36.6 | 60 | 16.2 | 32 | 8.6 | 22 | 5.9 |
Graduate school or beyond | 352 | 34.7 | 71 | 20.2 | 42 | 11.9 | 23 | 6.5 |
Annual income, $ | ||||||||
<50,000 | 268 | 26.9 | 22 | 8.2 | 14 | 5.2 | 10 | 3.7 |
50,000–100,000 | 388 | 38.9 | 62 | 16.0 | 38 | 9.8 | 26 | 6.7 |
>100,000 | 342 | 34.3 | 80 | 23.4 | 45 | 13.2 | 26 | 7.6 |
Missing | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Residence | ||||||||
Nonmetro | 106 | 10.5 | 15 | 14.2 | 10 | 9.4 | 10 | 9.4 |
Small metro | 164 | 16.2 | 24 | 14.6 | 16 | 9.8 | 8 | 4.9 |
Large fringe metro | 617 | 60.9 | 110 | 17.8 | 62 | 10.0 | 40 | 6.5 |
Large central metro | 127 | 12.5 | 19 | 15.0 | 10 | 7.9 | 5 | 3.9 |
a Included women without a history of cancer, who had reported sexual intercourse with a male partner and were not missing information on amount of time having unprotected intercourse for at least 6 months.
b Measured only among women who visited a doctor for help getting pregnant.
c Percentage calculated as the proportion of women in each sociodemographic subgroup that met each particular definition.