Table 3.
Association Between Participant Reports of Most Effective Contraceptive Method Currently Being Used and Lifetime Experience of Reproductive Coercion and the Covariates (Unweighted n = 240; Weighted n = 6529)
| Weighted % | Effectiveness of currently used contraceptive methods |
Chi-square | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None & low (weighted n = 1925) | Moderate (weighted n = 2421) | High (weighted n = 2183) | |||
| Reproductive coercion | <0.001 | ||||
| None | 70.1 | 86.1% | 68.1% | 58.2% | |
| Verbal only | 13.9 | 3.3% | 30.0% | 5.3% | |
| Behavioral | 16.1 | 10.6% | 1.9% | 36.5% | |
| Race/Hispanic ethnicity | 0.291 | ||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 27.8 | 26.9% | 29.0% | 27.4% | |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 50.1 | 45.8% | 51.4% | 52.6% | |
| Hispanic | 19.1 | 26.5% | 14.2% | 18.1% | |
| Other, non-Hispanic | 2.9 | 0.9% | 5.4% | 1.9% | |
| Age | 0.032 | ||||
| 16–19 | 13.2 | 18.9% | 14.4% | 6.7% | |
| 20–29 | 50.5 | 46.3% | 65.3% | 37.8% | |
| 30–45 | 36.3 | 34.8% | 20.2% | 55.5% | |
| Marital/relationship status | 0.098 | ||||
| Never married or Divorced/widowed /separated | 56.9 | 46.2% | 67.6% | 54.5% | |
| Currently married | 20.2 | 24.7% | 11.5% | 25.8% | |
| Currently cohabitating | 23.0 | 29.1% | 21.0% | 19.7% | |
| Insurance type | 0.151 | ||||
| Public | 50.3 | 41.5% | 48.5% | 60.2% | |
| Private | 25.5 | 31.4% | 26.2% | 19.5% | |
| None | 24.2 | 27.0% | 25.4% | 20.3% | |
| Education level | 0.093 | ||||
| High school or less | 50.9 | 46.4% | 43.4% | 63.0% | |
| Some college/vocational | 33.3 | 32.8% | 39.0% | 27.4% | |
| Bachelor's degree or more | 15.9 | 20.7% | 17.6% | 9.6% | |
| Nativity | 0.199 | ||||
| U.S.-born | 83.0 | 76.8% | 88.5% | 82.4% | |
| Foreign-born | 17.0 | 23.2% | 11.5% | 17.6% | |
| Future pregnancy desire | 0.017 | ||||
| In the next 2 years | 7.6 | 13.5% | 1.8% | 8.7% | |
| Sometime after 2 years | 29.7 | 42.6% | 28.2% | 19.8% | |
| Unsure & yes, but not sure when | 25.5 | 28.5% | 26.6% | 21.7% | |
| No (more) children | 37.3 | 15.4% | 43.3% | 49.8% | |
| Unintended pregnancy—ever | 0.141 | ||||
| No | 47.6 | 50.6% | 38.4% | 55.0% | |
| Yes | 52.4 | 49.4% | 61.6% | 45.0% | |