Partner involvement in abortion trajectories and subsequent abortion safety in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

BMC Women's Health

Table 1 Characteristics of women who reported abortions or menstrual regulation in Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire

	Nigeria		Côte d'Ivoire
	N	%	N	%
Background characteristics	(N = 1144)		(N = 347)
Age at abortion
10–19	249	22.1	152	44.4
20–29	555	49.3	138	40.4
30 +	322	28.6	52	15.2
Marital status at abortion
Married	692	60.6	149	42.9
Not married	449	39.4	198	57.1
Residence at abortion^a
Rural	446	39.0	127	36.6
Urban	698	61.0	220	63.4
Highest level of school attended^b
None	116	10.1	109	31.4
Primary	150	13.1	131	37.8
Secondary	582	50.9	91	26.2
Higher	296	25.9	16	4.6
Parity at abortion
0	509	44.5	149	42.9
1 +	634	55.5	198	57.1
Wealth tertile at interview
Low	341	29.9	99	28.6
Middle	385	33.8	124	35.8
High	414	36.3	123	35.5
State at interview
Anambra	191	16.7	–	–
Kaduna	214	18.7	–	–
Lagos	238	20.8	–	–
Nasarawa	165	14.4	–	–
Rivers	273	23.9	–	–
Taraba	63	5.5	–	–

^a Created based on respondent report of having lived in a village (rural) or a town or city (urban) at the time of the abortion
^b Based on level of school attending at time of abortion, if attending, or highest level attended according to baseline survey interview. This assumes that respondents who were not attending school at the time of their abortion had already completed their schooling

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