Table 3.

Main reason for not using birth control among women who are not currently pregnant, had sex in month of interview, are not sterilized nor sterile, and did not use a method in the month of the interview (n = 552) by expected timing of next birth

	Standard non-users of contraception
Main reason for not using birth control	Overalla n = 552 col % (SE)	Within next 2 years n = 118 col % (SE)	Refined non-users of contraception
			2–5 years from now n = 168 col % (SE)	More than 5 years from now n = 56 col % (SE)	Neverb n = 234 col % (SE)
Do not expect to have sex	13.8 (1.9)	7.5 (2.4)	20.2 (5.3)	28.0 (5.8)	10.6 (2.5)
Do not think you can get pregnant	17.6 (2.5)	12.6 (3.9)	11.8 (3.9)	13.0 (6.5)c	24.1 (4.6)
Don't really mind if you get pregnant	22.6 (2.2)	41.4 (6.5)	24.4 (4.7)	10.0 (5.1)c	14.8 (3.1)
Worried about the side effects of birth control	21.0 (2.5)	25.4 (6.8)	23.1 (5.2)	15.7 (5.5)	18.4 (3.4)
Male partner does not want you to use a birth control method	0.7 (0.3)c	0.0 (0.0)	0.7 (0.5) c	0.6 (0.6) c	1.0 (0.5) c
Male partner does not want to use a birth control method	1.5 (0.7)c	1.4 (1.2) c	0.0 (0.0)	0.5 (0.5) c	2.6 (1.7) c
Could not get a method	6.0 (1.6)	0.9 (0.5) c	9.5 (4.8)	18.7 (6.7) c	4.2 (1.4)
Not taking, or using, method consistently	8.3 (1.8)	6.7 (3.5) c	8.0 (2.2)	4.4 (2.3) c	9.9 (3.5)
Refused	0.4 (0.3)c	0.2 (0.2) c	0.0 (0.0)	0.0 (0.0)	0.7 (0.6) c
Don't know	3.8 (1.4)	0.6 (0.6) c	1.0 (0.7) c	6.4 (4.1) c	6.6 (2.9)
Total, row %	552 (100)	21.7 (2.4)	25.3 (2.6)	7.5 (1.2)	45.6 (3.3)

^aOf 649 eligible respondents, 73 did not provide a main reason for not using birth control, and 24 eligible respondents responded they were actually using a method; these 97 respondents were excluded from this table.

^b1 “Don't know” and 233 “Nevers”.

^cPercentage estimate may be unreliable because based on unweighted counts of < 10.