Table 3.

Characteristics of women Veterans at-risk for unintended pregnancy^& by race/ethnicity (n=1431)

	Total	Hispanic (n=169, %)	NH White (n=702, %)	NH Black (n=373, %)	NH Other (n=97, %)	p-value
Age						0.010
20-24	3.9	1.8	4.7	3.5	3.1
25-59	18.7	26.0	19.7	13.4	19.6
30-34	32.4	33.7	33.8	30.8	26.8
35-39	25.1	22.5	24.2	28.2	24.7
40-45	19.8	16.0	17.7	24.1	25.8
Marital Statusa						< 0.001
Single	21.1	26	16.4	28.4	18.8
Married	43.6	46.2	48.1	33.8	43.8
Unmarried but cohabiting	8.7	6.5	10.4	5.6	12.5
DSW	26.6	21.3	25.1	32.2	25
Annual Household Incomeb						0.071
< $20,000	20.5	16.6	21.7	20	21.1
$20,000 - $39,999	31.7	34.9	29.5	33.5	35.8
$40,000 - $59,999	21.6	25.4	18.9	25.1	21.1
$60,000 - $79,999	11.4	11.8	12.3	9.7	10.5
≥ $80,000	14.7	11.2	17.6	11.6	11.6
Education						0.454
HS / trade school	7.9	7.7	8.3	8.0	7.9
Some college	39.2	37.3	39.7	37.3	39.2
College	39.9	46.2	39	39.4	39.9
Master’s degree or higher	13.0	8.9	13	15.3	13
Parityc						0.001
0	31.4	30.8	36.2	23.7	26.8
1	24.8	26.6	22.5	28.2	24.7
2	28.0	27.2	28.8	27.4	25.8
3	11.6	12.4	9.1	15.1	14.4
≥ 4	4.3	3.0	3.3	5.6	8.2
Has additional Non-VA Insurance	50.9	47.9	52.4	50.1	47.4	0.614
≥1 Medical condition	53.3	47.9	50.7	60.6	53.6	0.008
≥1 Mental health condition	66.0	60.9	71.1	59.8	61.9	0.001
History of military sexual trauma	52.7	53.8	56.3	44.2	57.7	0.002
Geographic location						<0.001
Northeast	7.9	4.1	9.5	5.1	13.4
Midwest	18.2	8.3	26.2	10.7	6.2
South	53.0	57.4	41.0	75.6	45.4
West	20.9	30.2	23.2	8.6	35.1

NH, non-Hispanic; SD, standard deviation; DSW, divorced, separated, widowed; HS, high school

Missing under the Hispanic ethnicity question was coded as non-Hispanic and missing race was coded as other race.

^&Women were considered at risk of unintended pregnancy if they had been sexually active with a man in the last year, had not had a hysterectomy, and were not infertile, pregnant, postpartum, or trying to get pregnant

P-values calculated using Pearson’s chi-square test

^an=1 missing;

^bn=15 missing;

^cn=2 missing