State-Level Contraceptive Use and Preferences: Estimates from the US 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor

Throughout this Some 28 jurisdictions (26 US states† and for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, we will explore how patterns of the US territories of Puerto Rico and Guam) to modify existing questions and include contraceptive use and preferences vary by administered the family planning module as additional questions in the BRFSS family type of method or combination of methods part of th. [...] Our analysis provides basic tabulations and construction of each indicator is available Further information on BRFSS survey data visualizations of state-level contracep- in the Additional Notes on Data below, and methodology, sampling design and data tive prevalence, methods used at last sex, the appendix tables are available at the preparation are published elsewhere.7–9 The dual method use and u. [...] method they or their partner used the tomy, 11,041 dropped out of the survey prior last time they had sexual intercourse to In Figure 2, we report the percentage of to reaching the family planning module. [...] capture the full extent of contraceptive each state and found no significant differ- use and preferences in the population, We calculated relative standard error by ences in any jurisdiction in which the data future efforts should take into account dividing the standard error by the point met our reliability standards; thus, we do that people may use contraception for estimate and multiplying by 1. [...] Gender identity was ■ Some 24 states did not field the family collected in 18 of the 28 jurisdictions that planning module in the 2022 BRFSS, and fielded both the family planning module this prevented us from providing a com- and the sexual and gender identity (SOGI) prehensive picture of US contraceptive module.