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Table 2 Weighted percent of US women aged 35 to 54 years at risk of pregnancy and sexually active who are using oral contraceptive pills or depo-provera, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011-2012a

From: Contraceptive preferences and unmet need for contraception in midlife women: where are the data?

Age

Oral contraceptive pill

Depo-provera

Both

Neither

35–39

11.3%

0.8%

0.9%

86.9%

40–44

13.0%

0.7%

0.0%

86.3%

45–49

17.6%

0.0%

0.0%

82.4%

50–54

0.8%

0.9%

0.0%

98.3%

  1. aNational Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2011–2012 https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/ContinuousNhanes/Default.aspx?BeginYear=2011 [10]