A new study released today uses data from the 2019 and 2020 cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey to examine the prevalence of contraception use among sexually active women wanting to avoid pregnancy.
Overall, one in five women wanting to avoid pregnancy report that they and their partner did not use contraception the last time they had sex
During the period from 2019 to 2020, although the majority (79.9%) of women wanting to avoid pregnancy reported that they and their partner used contraception the last time they had sex, one in five (20.1%) reported not using contraception.
Contraception use varied according to certain characteristics. For instance, contraception use declined with age, with about 9 in 10 women aged 15 to 24 years (89.6%) reporting that they and their partner used contraception, while the same was true for 84.2% of women aged 25 to 34 years and 74.0% of those aged 35 to 49 years. Contraception use was also lower among both recent (72.6%) and established (74.6%) immigrant women, relative to their non-immigrant counterparts (81.4%).
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