QuickStats: Percentage of U.S. Women Aged 21–65 Years Who Never Had a Papanicolaou Test (Pap Test), by Place of Birth and Length of Residence in the United States
Posted on byIn 2013 and 2015 combined, 6.8% of U.S. women aged 21–65 years had never received a Pap test in their lifetime.
Foreign-born women were more than twice as likely as U.S. born women to have never received a Pap test (13.4% versus 5.2%).
Foreign-born women who lived in the United States for more than 25% of their lifetime were almost twice as likely as those who resided in the United States for 25% or less of their lifetime (21.5% versus 10.9%) to have never received a Pap test.
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Page last reviewed: April 3, 2017
Page last updated: April 3, 2017
Content source:
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics