Contraceptive behaviour of adults 2023. Research report on the representative survey

Conducted in 2023, this study interviewed 1,001 sexually active adults aged 18-49 about their contraceptive methods and attitudes. This representative survey focused on current use of different contraceptive methods. Attitudes towards individual contraceptive methods, and hormonal contraception in particular were also of interest. In addition, the report looked at information seeking behaviour and the preferred sources of information.The current study is part of a long tradition of surveys conducted by the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) in this field: the first survey on the contraceptive behaviour of sexually active adults took place in 2003. Further surveys followed in 2007, 2011 and 2018.