Table 1 Profile of the women aged 15–49 who terminated their last pregnancy with an abortion in the five years prior to the survey, India, 2019-21 (n = 5835)
From: Patterns and correlates of post-abortion complications in India
Characteristics | Women who had an abortion | |
|---|---|---|
% | n | |
Age | ||
15–24 | 18.75 | 1094 |
25–34 | 59.28 | 3459 |
35–49 | 21.97 | 1282 |
Gestational age | ||
<=8 weeks | 72.72 | 4243 |
9–20 weeks | 25.04 | 1461 |
>=20 weeks | 2.24 | 131 |
Method of abortion | ||
Medicine | 67.74 | 3953 |
MVA | 11.62 | 678 |
Other surgical | 16.03 | 935 |
Other/Do not know | 4.61 | 269 |
Place of abortion | ||
Public | 20.44 | 1193 |
Private | 53.03 | 3094 |
Home/Other | 26.53 | 1548 |
Person conducted abortion | ||
Doctor | 54.5 | 3181 |
Other health care providers | 19.0 | 1108 |
Self | 26.5 | 1546 |
Reasons for abortion | ||
Life-risk/medical reasons | 21.8 | 1270 |
Sex-selective | 7.0 | 410 |
Unintended pregnancy | 71.2 | 4155 |
Years of schooling | ||
No schooling | 15.04 | 877 |
< 10 | 41.34 | 2412 |
>=10 | 43.62 | 2546 |
Caste | ||
SC/ST | 29.04 | 1694 |
OBC | 40.92 | 2388 |
Non-SC/ST/OBC | 30.04 | 1753 |
Wealth quintile | ||
Poorest | 14.67 | 856 |
Poorer | 19.84 | 1158 |
Middle | 20.91 | 1220 |
Richer | 21.56 | 1258 |
Richest | 23.02 | 1343 |
Place of residence | ||
Urban | 37.91 | 2212 |
Rural | 62.09 | 3623 |
Region | ||
North | 11.12 | 649 |
Central | 26.90 | 1570 |
East | 25.66 | 1497 |
North East | 6.66 | 389 |
West | 13.81 | 805 |
South | 15.85 | 925 |
Total number of women | 100 | 5835 |