Post by kevin on Oct 1, 2015 23:02:32 GMT -5
How Many Women Don’t Use Tampons?
"7:02 AM By Mona Chalabi
Dear Mona,
I use maxi pads exclusively and never tampons. Am I normal? Literally all of my female friends and family members use tampons primarily.
Chris, 35
Dear Chris,
You’re not so strange. More U.S. women use pads than tampons, according to a survey of 739 women conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overall, 62 percent of women said they use pads, compared with 42 percent who said they used tampons (those percentages include women who said they used both — unfortunately the survey didn’t ask women whether they used only one product). But that survey was conducted between 2001 and 2004, and the CDC tells me that it doesn’t have any more recent numbers. And survey companies — which are interested in questions like “What do you think will be the most likely cause of the apocalypse?” — aren’t so bothered about tampon trends.
MONAI did, however, get some up-to-date numbers from Euromonitor, a market research company that tracks sales of female hygiene products in 81 countries. It found that American women ages 12 to 54 bought, on average, 111 maxi pads in 2014 — but only 66 tampons that same year.1
Euromonitor has data on how many tampons, pads and panty liners women in the U.S. have bought since 2000 — and has even projected patterns all the way to 2019. So I have even more good news for you, Chris: Not only are your period product choices normal, but they’ve been normal for more than a decade. And it looks like they will be normal for a few more years — pads are way out in front as the most-purchased item..." fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-many-women-dont-use-tampons/
"7:02 AM By Mona Chalabi
Dear Mona,
I use maxi pads exclusively and never tampons. Am I normal? Literally all of my female friends and family members use tampons primarily.
Chris, 35
Dear Chris,
You’re not so strange. More U.S. women use pads than tampons, according to a survey of 739 women conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Overall, 62 percent of women said they use pads, compared with 42 percent who said they used tampons (those percentages include women who said they used both — unfortunately the survey didn’t ask women whether they used only one product). But that survey was conducted between 2001 and 2004, and the CDC tells me that it doesn’t have any more recent numbers. And survey companies — which are interested in questions like “What do you think will be the most likely cause of the apocalypse?” — aren’t so bothered about tampon trends.
MONAI did, however, get some up-to-date numbers from Euromonitor, a market research company that tracks sales of female hygiene products in 81 countries. It found that American women ages 12 to 54 bought, on average, 111 maxi pads in 2014 — but only 66 tampons that same year.1
Euromonitor has data on how many tampons, pads and panty liners women in the U.S. have bought since 2000 — and has even projected patterns all the way to 2019. So I have even more good news for you, Chris: Not only are your period product choices normal, but they’ve been normal for more than a decade. And it looks like they will be normal for a few more years — pads are way out in front as the most-purchased item..." fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/how-many-women-dont-use-tampons/
