title: Contraceptive use and sterilization among Puerto Rican women.
abstract: A comparison of contraceptive use in the early to mid-1980s among married Puerto Rican women aged 15-49 in the New York City area reveals that island-born Puerto Rican women living in New York rely on female sterilization to nearly the same extent as do women living in Puerto Rico (45% and 41%, respectively) and that mainland-born Puerto Rican women use sterilization as much as do all women in the United States (19% for both groups). Puerto Rican women in New York use reversible methods to a greater extent than do women in Puerto Rico (22% v. 16%), but to a lesser extent than do all women in the United States (37%). Although mainland-born Puerto Rican women in New York use reversible methods more than do island-born women in New York (42% v. 23%), they tend not to adopt these methods to the same extent as do all U.S. women during the early reproductive years, when education and employment are critical to socioeconomic attainment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, New York.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Salvo
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Powers
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Cooney
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003268:Contraception Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003270:Contraceptive Agents; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D003270:Contraceptive Agents