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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for those who experienced a recent crisis pregnancy as a proportion of the overall respondents across the three surveys

From: Factors associated with crisis pregnancies in Ireland: findings from three nationally representative sexual health surveys

 

ICCP-2003 (n = 1961)

ISSHR (2006) (n = 2979)

ICCP-2010 (n = 1562)

Chi square

 

[Sample %] n (weighted %)

[Sample %] n (weighted %)

[Sample %] n (weighted %)

χ2(df) (φ)

Crisis pregnancy

[4.9] 97 (7.4)

[5.0] 150 (5.4)

[5.7] 89 (6.1)

n/s

Current age

    

18-25

[30.8] 34 (10.3)

[33.2] 73 (8.0)

[24.0] 27 (8.2)

n/s

26-35

[36.3] 45 (8.4)

[30.1] 56 (5.8)

[42.2] 38 (5.2)

 

34-45

[32.9] 18 (3.5)

[36.6] 21 (2.6)

[33.8] 24 (5.6)

 

Current social class

    

SC 1-2

[30.8] 29 (5.3)

[36.8] 54 (4.4)

[37.8] 24 (3.4)

32.28 (6) (0.31)*

SC 3-4

[30.9] 34 (8.5)

[32.1] 52 (5.4)

[34.9] 27 (6.7)

 

SC 5-6

[24.4] 19 (7.8)

[22.9] 35 (7.1)

[11.1] 9 (4.0)

 

SC 7

[13.9] 15 (8.9)

[8.3] 9 (4.4)

[16.2] 29 (12.3)

 

Current education level

    

Pre-leaving cert

[21.9] 17 (9.5)

[21.8] 23 (5.5)

[14.5] 16 (13.6)

23.71 (4) (0.27)*

Leaving cert

[33.9] 22 (5.6)

[50.8] 70 (5.7)

[29.8] 19 (6.3)

 

Post-leaving cert

[44.2] 58 (7.7)

[27.4] 57 (4.6)

[55.7] 54 (3.9)

 

Current no. of children

    

No children

[46.5] 16 (3.2)

[44.3] 38 (2.9)

[47.0] 6 (0.8)

23.72 (4) (0.27)*

One child

[14.0] 37 (24.2)

[13.8] 66 (17.8)

[14.8] 30 (10.5)

 

2 plus children

[39.5] 44 (6.5)

[41.9] 46 (3.8)

[38.2] 53 (10.7)

 

Current relationship status

    

Married

[37.5] 31 (3.0)

[42.0] 41 (2.8)

[44.0] 40 (7.4)

n/s

Cohabiting

[5.0] 14 (12.3)

[8.6] 25 (10.7)

[11.7] 17 (8.0)

 

Steady relationship

[19.3] 20 (9.8)

[16.5] 38 (8.3)

[15.1] 8 (2.6)

 

Causal or no rel.

[36.2] 32 (10.4)

[32.9] 46 (5.7)

[28.7] 24 (5.1)

 

Current religiosity

    

Important

[62.6] 51 (5.6)

[78.9] 109 (4.7)

[57.3] 41 (5.7)

19.12 (2) (0.24)*

Not important

[37.4] 45 (10.6)

[21.1] 41 (7.7)

[42.7] 48 (6.5)

 
  1. Note. Chi square analysis conducted on unweighted data. Sample n denotes the overall percentage in the full sample of female respondents. n = sample size. χ2 = chi square statistic. df = degrees of freedom. Φ = Phi effect size. n/s denotes the difference was not significant. *The difference was significant at the 0.005 level.