Research Article

Unintended Pregnancy and Abortion Access in the United States

Table 1

Summary statistics.

Variable MeanStandard deviation

Unintended pregnancy rate (women ages 15–44) 51.8 9.05
Labor force participation (women ages 16–44) 83.8 2.85
Percent of Single (women ages 16–44) 35.4 4.13
Percent of College (women ages 25–44) 22.4 4.06
Percent of Evangelical Christians (state population) 14.5 13.5
Percent of Catholic (state population)19.6 12.4
TANF (average stipend) 336.4135.9
Percent of Poverty (state population) 8.7 2.76
No Medicaid funding (=1).66.47
Parental involvement laws (=1).64.48
Mandatory counseling laws (=1).48.50
Two-visit laws (=1).10.30
Antiabortion attitudes 25.5014.56