Induced abortion in the developing world: Indirect estimates

Heidi Bart Johnston; Kenneth H. Hill

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Induced abortion in the developing world: Indirect estimates

Heidi Bart Johnston, Kenneth H. Hill

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An analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data provides indirect estimates of the prevalence of abortion in 21 developing countries by rearranging Bongaarts's proximate determinants model to allow calculation of the index of abortion from the other principal proximate determinants of fertility (marriage, contraceptive use and postpartum insusceptibility to pregnancy), average total fecundity and total fertility. On average, abortion appears to have an influence on fertility similar to that of contraceptive use. This influence appears to be particularly strong in the four Latin American countries in the analysis, where abortion reduces fertility by 38-55%. In contrast, abortion's fertility-reducing effect is only 6-19% in the Near East and 0-32% in Africa. In five countries for which two sets of DHS data are available, this reductive effect appears to have increased over time.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	108-114
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Family Planning Perspectives
Volume	22
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/2950751
State	Published - 1996
Externally published	Yes

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