2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

CONTRACEPTION

What are your reasons or your husband's or partner's reasons for not doing anything to keep from getting pregnant now? I AM WORRIED ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS FROM BIRTH CONTROL1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 170 111 64.2 54.9-72.5 59 35.8 27.5-45.1
Age
< 25 years 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 94 *** *** *** *** *** ***
35+ years 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 86 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Black 35 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 15 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 27 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 24 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 30 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 116 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Marital Status
Married 98 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Medicaid recipient
No 88 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Yes 82 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
2500+ grams 107 70 64.0 53.9-73.1 37 36.0 26.9-46.1

1Asked only of mothers who reported not doing anything now to keep from getting pregnant.
2Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.

*** This estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards.
N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).

The percentages shown are weighted percentages, designed to reflect the entire population of North Carolina women having a live birth.
The overall weighted response rate in 2020 was 45%.

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