TABLE 2-3, Intention Status at Conception of Births in the Last 5 Years to Ever-Married Women and to Ever- Married Women with Incomes Below the Poverty Level, by Race, 1973–1988 (in Percent) - The Best Intentions

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	Births Derived from Intended Pregnancies			Births Derived from Mistimed Pregnancies			Births Derived from Unwanted Pregnancies
Group	1973	1982	1988	1973	1982	1988	1973	1982	1988
All ever-married women	61.7	68.3	64.7	24.0	24.0	25.0	14.3	7.7	10.3
Below poverty, ever-married women	48.6	56.6	45.0	25.3	31.5	34.3	26.1	11.9	20.7
Ever-married white women	64.3	69.7	65.6	23.4	23.6	25.6	12.3	6.7	8.8
Below poverty, ever-married white women	53.4	58.8	45.3	27.5	31.0	37.3	19.1	10.2	17.4
Ever-married black women	40.6	56.0	51.0	28.9	28.1	26.2	30.5	15.9	22.8
Below poverty, ever-married black women	35.9	47.5	37.6	20.3	31.5	27.1	43.8	21.0	35.3

: SOURCE: Williams LB, Pratt WF. Wanted and unwanted childbearing in the United States: 1973–1988. Advance data from Vital and Health Statistics, no. 189. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 1990.

The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families.

Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Unintended Pregnancy; Brown SS, Eisenberg L, editors.

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