Most common type of birth control in the US
time.com/5482918/female-contraception-us/Posted Dec 19, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC
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Does this include doubling up on methods or just the main one that's being relied on?
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Posted Dec 19, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC
Does this include doubling up on methods or just the main one that's being relied on?
From the article:
According to the new report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which polled women from 2015 to 2017, sterilization was the most common contraceptive method for the roughly 47 million women in this age range. Almost 19% of women relied on female sterilization — a permanent procedure that involves either cutting, sealing, tying or manually blocking the fallopian tubes — for birth control.
Almost 13% of women said they used birth control pills, followed by about 10% who used long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) such as intrauterine devices (IUDs). Almost 9% of women used the male condom for birth control, and almost 6% relied on a male parter’s sterilization, which is performed through a vasectomy. Smaller proportions of women used methods including rings, patches, diaphragms and injections.