2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
CONTRACEPTION
What are your or your husband's or partner's reasons for not doing anything to keep from getting pregnant now?1
Reasons for not using birth control Total Respondent NO  YES 
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
I want to get pregnant  166 139 84.4 76.6-89.9 27 15.6 10.1-23.4
I am pregnant now 166 158 96.5 91.4-98.6 8 3.5 1.4-8.6
I had my tubes tied or blocked 171 157 91.9 85.1-95.8 14 8.1 4.2-14.9
I don't want to use birth control^ 171 107 61.8 52.6-70.2 64 38.2 29.8-47.4
I am worried about side effects from birth control^ 170 111 64.2 54.9-72.5 59 35.8 27.5-45.1
I am not having sex^ 173 115 68.7 59.8-76.4 58 31.3 23.6-40.2
My husband or partner doesn't want to use anything 166 150 91.0 84.0-95.1 16 9.0 4.9-16.0
I have problems paying for birth control 167 160 95.7 89.8-98.2 7 4.3 1.8-10.2
Other unspecified  171 141 82.3 74.0-88.3 30 17.7 11.7-26.0
1Asked only of mothers who reported not doing anything now to keep from getting pregnant.
^Detailed tables are available for the following reasons: Don't want to use birth control;  Worries about contraception side effects; Abstinance.
#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.
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.