70 percent of women use contraceptives during their first sexual encounter

Contraceptive use in Spain during the first sexual encounter is similar to other European countries. However, there are some geographical differences between Spanish regions: women in Murcia use contraceptives less (55.8%) whereas women in the Basque Country use them more (76.7%).
Spanish researchers have analysed the prevalence of contraceptive use during the first sexual encounter over the last month in 5,141 sexually active women between the ages of 15 and 49 years through Spain’s 17 autonomous communities.
‘Bearing in mind the individual factors amongst women that determine contraceptive use, living in one autonomous community or another also has an influence,’ as explained to SINC by Dolores Ruiz Mu