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Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2006


Women between the ages of 13 and 44 who are sexually active and able to become pregnant, but do not wish to become pregnant, are in need of contraceptive services and supplies. Those who are poor or low-income, as well as teenagers, may need subsidized care. These tables report on the current status of contraceptive needs and services in the United States as a whole, for the 10 federal regions and for each state and county.

National and State Tables, 2006:

Highlights

Definitions and Notes

Table A. Number of women in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies, 2006, number receiving public-sector contraceptive services, 2006, and the percentage of need for publicly supported care that is met by public-sector providers, 1994–2006

Table 1. Total number of women aged 13–44 and number of women in need of contraceptive services and supplies, by age, poverty status and race/ethnicity—2000, 2002 and 2006 national summary and 2006 regional and state detail

Table 2. Number of women in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies, by race/ethnicity and need status (younger than 20 or aged 20–44 and under 250% of poverty)—2000, 2002 and 2006 National summary and 2006 regional and state detail

Table 3. Total number of publicly supported family planning clinics by type of provider, number of female contraceptive clients served, and number of Title X–supported clinics and clients served—2001 and 2006 national summary and 2006 regional and state detail

Table 4. Number of women in need of publicly supported contraceptive services and supplies, 1995, 2000 and 2006—national, regional and state summary

Table 5. Number of female contraceptive clients served by publicly supported family planning clinics, 1994, 2001 and 2006—national, regional and state summary

Table 6. Number of female contraceptive clients served by publicly supported family planning clinics and at Title X–supported clinics, both by type of provider—2001 and 2006 national summary and 2006 regional and state detail

Table 7. Number of female contraceptive clients younger than 20 served by publicly supported family planning clinics and at Title X–supported clinics, both by type of provider—2001 and 2006 national summary and 2006 regional and state detail

Detailed County Tables, 2006

Click below to access the county-level detailed tables for a selected state (all links are to PDF files)

United States map Maine MaineNew Hampshire Vermont New Hampshire Vermont Massachussets Rhode Island Connecticut New Jersey Deleware Maryland District of Columbia Massachussets Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Maryland Delaware New York Pennsylvania West Virginia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Indiana Michigan Michigan Wisconsin Illinois Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas Louisiana Texas OklahomaKansasNebraska South Dakota North Dakota Montana Idaho Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Nevada Washington Oregon California Hawaii Alaska


Detailed Methodology for Estimating the Number of Women in Need of Contraceptive Services and Supplies in 2006

Detailed Methodology for Enumerating the Number of Women Receiving Public-Sector Contraceptive Services in 2006

This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) under grant FPRPA006017.

Documents and tables from Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2001–2002 can be found here.