Item responses to the Reproductive Autonomy Scale by a sample of reproductive age, sexually active women (n=826), UK 2018
| Decision making subscale | My partner | Both me and my partner | Me | ||
| 1 | Who has the MOST say about whether you use a method to prevent pregnancy? | 8 (1%) | 408 (49.4%) | 410 (49.6%) | |
| 2 | Who has the MOST say about which method you would use to prevent pregnancy? | 13 (1.6%) | 204 (24.7%) | 609 (73.7%) | |
| 3 | Who has the MOST say about when you have a baby in your life? | 33 (4%) | 517 (62.6%) | 276 (33.4%) | |
| 4 | If you became pregnant but it was unplanned, who would have the MOST say about whether you would raise the child, seek adoptive parents, or have an abortion? | 15 (1.8%) | 409 (49.5%) | 402 (48.7%) | |
| Freedom from Coercion subscale | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Agree | Strongly agree | |
| 5 | My partner has stopped me from using a method to prevent pregnancy when I wanted to use one | 735 (89%) | 68 (8.2%) | 17 (2.1%) | 6 (0.7%) |
| 6 | My partner has messed with or made it difficult to use a method to prevent pregnancy when I wanted to use one | 747 (90.4%) | 62 (7.5%) | 12 (1.5%) | 5 (0.6%) |
| 7 | My partner has made me use a method to prevent pregnancy when I did not want to use one | 729 (88.3%) | 76 (9.2%) | 16 (1.9%) | 5 (0.6%) |
| 8 | If I wanted to use a method to prevent pregnancy my partner would stop me | 763 (92.4%) | 54 (6.5%) | 8 (1%) | 1 (0.1%) |
| 9 | My partner has pressured me to become pregnant | 766 (92.7%) | 53 (6.4%) | 4 (0.5%) | 3 (0.4%) |
| Communication subscale | Strongly disagree | Disagree | Agree | Strongly agree | |
| 10 | My partner would support me if I wanted to use a method to prevent pregnancy | 24 (2.9%) | 6 (0.7%) | 132 (16%) | 664% (80.4%) |
| 11 | It is easy to talk about sex with my partner | 18 (2.2%) | 86 (10.4%) | 280 (33.9%) | 442 (53.5%) |
| 12 | If I didn't want to have sex I could tell my partner | 11 (1.3%) | 23 (2.8%) | 242 (29.3%) | 550 (66.6%) |
| 13 | If I was worried about being pregnant or not being pregnant I could talk to my partner about it | 10 (1.2%) | 35 (4.2%) | 235 (28.5%) | 546 (66.1%) |
| 14 | If I really did not want to become pregnant I could get my partner to agree with me | 13 (1.6%) | 36 (4.4%) | 263 (31.8%) | 514 (62.2%) |