Fifty years ago, the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) began surveying the sexual activity of the American public, ultimately studying tens of thousands of people. The research is conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and periodically the NSFG releases reports focusing on their agency's most recent results.
Now the NSFG has released a pair of reports suggesting that more people are using contraceptives. One study looked at data collected between 2015 and 2019 (the latest year data is available) from more than 10,000 women between age 15 to 49 who had ever had vaginal intercourse with a male partner. It found that virtually all women in this cohort reported using at least one contraceptive method at some point in their life (99.2%). This included 94.5% who had used a male condom and 79.8% who had used the pill.
