{"id":3957,"date":"2017-09-18T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:13:30","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-women-who-missed-taking-oral-contraceptive-pills-among-women-aged-15-44-years-who-used-oral-contraceptive-pills-and-had-sexual-intercourse-overall-and-by-age-and-num","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/09\/18\/3957\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Women Who Missed Taking Oral Contraceptive Pills Among Women Aged 15\u201344 Years Who Used Oral Contraceptive Pills and Had Sexual Intercourse, Overall and by Age and Number of Pills Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6636a10.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6636qsf.gif\" width=\"444\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among women aged 15\u201344 years who used oral contraceptive pills in the last 4 weeks and had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months, 69% of women reported missing no pills, 15% missed one pill, and 16% missed two or more pills.<\/p>\n<p>Across the two age groups (15\u201324 years and 25\u201344 years), similar percentages of women aged 15\u201324 years reported missing no pills (67%) compared with women aged 25\u201344 years (70%).<\/p>\n<p>Similar percentages of women aged 15\u201324 years reported missing one pill (12%) compared with women aged 25\u201344 years (17%).<\/p>\n<p>A higher percentage of women aged 15\u201324 years (21%) reported missing two or more pills compared with women aged 25\u201344 years (13%).<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0National Survey of Family Growth, 2013\u20132015.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nsfg\/index.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nsfg\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6636a10.htm?s_cid=mm6636a10_e\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6636a10.htm?s_cid=mm6636a10_e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among women aged 15\u201344 years who used oral contraceptive pills in the last 4 weeks and had sexual intercourse in the past 12 months, 69% of women reported missing no pills, 15% missed one pill, and 16% missed two or more pills. Across the two age groups (15\u201324 years and 25\u201344 years), similar percentages of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62258,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}