Fig 1.
Determination of eligible sample.
*Percentage of women at each survey who completed contraceptive questions but were excluded due to being not at risk of an unintended pregnancy: 2006 = 36%, 2012 = 31%, 2018 = 28%.
Table 1.
Proportion of women with chronic disease over the observation period.
Table 2.
Characteristics of women from the 1973–78 cohort at Survey 4 in 2006 (aged 28–33 years), according to chronic disease status (n = 5,402).
Table 3.
Contraceptive trend over time by chronic disease status.
Table 4.
Probability of individual contraception contributing to contraceptive patterns over time for Australian women born 1973–78, using a five-status LTA model.
Table 5.
Multinomial mixed-effect models for the effect of chronic disease status on contraceptive use for Australian women, aged 28 to 45 across three time points (2006, 2012 & 2018).