Santow G
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 1991 Aug;31(3):201-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1479-828x.1991.tb02781.x.
Life-history data collected in a national survey of women in 1986 are used to derive the first national estimates of trends in contraception and sterilization in Australia over the last 30 years. The pill rapidly became the method of choice after its release in 1961. The intrauterine device, the other truly modern method, has never attained the same popularity. The move toward sterilization dates from the early 1970s and has been so complete that women of 35 or older are now more likely to be protected by a ligation or laparoscopic sterilization than by the pill or, indeed, by all other methods combined. Unmarried women are now indistinguishable from married women on the basis of their use of contraception, and childless married women are now more likely to be using a reversible method than married women with children.
1986年在一项全国性女性调查中收集的生活史数据，被用于得出澳大利亚过去30年避孕和绝育趋势的首批全国性估计数据。避孕药在1961年推出后迅速成为首选方法。宫内节育器，另一种真正的现代方法，从未获得过同样的普及程度。向绝育的转变始于20世纪70年代初，并且已经如此彻底，以至于35岁及以上的女性现在更有可能通过结扎或腹腔镜绝育得到保护，而不是通过避孕药，或者实际上是通过所有其他方法的组合。未婚女性在避孕使用方面现在与已婚女性没有区别，而且无子女的已婚女性现在比有子女的已婚女性更有可能使用可逆方法。
