2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

CONTRACEPTION

Are you or your husband or partner doing anything now to keep from getting pregnant?1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 765 158 19.9 16.7-23.5 607 80.1 76.5-83.3
Age
< 25 years 150 35 23.4 16.0-32.9 115 76.6 67.1-84.0
25-34 years 451 86 18.0 14.2-22.6 365 82.0 77.4-85.8
35+ years 164 37 22.0 15.5-30.2 127 78.0 69.8-84.5
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 398 82 20.7 16.4-25.8 316 79.3 74.2-83.6
Non-Hispanic Black 141 32 21.8 14.7-31.0 109 78.2 69.0-85.3
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 155 24 12.7 7.7-20.2 131 87.3 79.8-92.3
Education
< High School 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 159 30 18.2 11.9-26.8 129 81.8 73.2-88.1
> High School 514 107 19.8 16.1-24.1 407 80.2 75.9-83.9
Marital Status
Married 474 93 19.5 15.6-24.0 381 80.5 76.0-84.4
Other 291 65 20.6 15.4-27.0 226 79.4 73.0-84.6
Medicaid recipient
No 408 85 21.1 16.8-26.0 323 78.9 74.0-83.2
Yes 357 73 18.6 14.0-24.2 284 81.4 75.8-86.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 265 59 22.6 17.7-28.3 206 77.4 71.7-82.3
2500+ grams 500 99 19.7 16.2-23.6 401 80.3 76.4-83.8

1Asked of all mothers.
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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