Contraception
Volume 77, Issue 1 , Pages 10-21 , January 2008

Estimates of contraceptive failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth

  • Kathryn Kost

      Affiliations

    • Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY 10038, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 212 248 1111; fax: +1 212 248 1951.
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  • Susheela Singh

      Affiliations

    • Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY 10038, USA
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  • Barbara Vaughan

      Affiliations

    • Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY 10038, USA
    • ,
  • James Trussell

      Affiliations

    • Office of Population Research, Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
    • The Hull-York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, England
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  • Akinrinola Bankole

      Affiliations

    • Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY 10038, USA

Received 19 September 2007 ,Revised 27 September 2007 ,Accepted 27 September 2007.

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PII: S0010-7824(07)00431-3

doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2007.09.013

Contraception
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