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  1. Newsgroups: talk.abortion
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews!admin!news
  3. From: Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com>
  4. Subject: Re: CONTRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES (long)
  5. Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.201514.17406@watson.ibm.com>
  7. Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:15:14 GMT
  8. Reply-To: margoli@watson.ibm.com
  9. Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
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  14. In  <1992Aug30.212940.15090@menudo.uh.edu>  HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.) writes:
  15. > Table 1. % of women experiencing contraceptive failure during the 1st 12 month
  16. > of use, uncorrected and corrected for underreporting of abortion, by method,
  17. > NFSG, 1988
  18. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  19. > method      uncorrected,     corrected,     corrected,
  20. >           unstandardized  unstandardized  standardized
  21. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  22. > pill          5.1             8.3            7.3
  23. > condom        7.2            14.8           15.8
  24. > diaphragm    10.4            15.9           22.0
  25. > periodic
  26. > abstinence   20.9            25.6           31.4
  27. > sponge       14.5            *              *
  28. > spermicides  13.4            25.2           30.2
  29. > other        13.3            27.8           26.2
  30.  
  31. So Suzanne's beloved "periodic abstinence" gives the worst results of
  32. all methods of birth control.  Not surprising to most people...
  33.  
  34. Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
  35.