Agrawal Sutapa
South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India.
Health Care Women Int. 2012;33(11):986-1019. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2012.692413.
In this study, the author examined the effect of family size preference and sex composition of living children as determinants of induced abortion among women in India by analyzing 90,303 ever-married women aged 15-49, included in India's second National Family Health Survey, conducted in 1998-99. Multivariate logistic regression methods were used to examine the association between induced abortion and possible determinants. The results indicated that a woman's desire to limit family size with preferred sex composition of children, coupled with her autonomy and the sociocultural context, largely determines her experience of induced abortion in India.
在本研究中,作者通过分析印度1998 - 1999年进行的第二次全国家庭健康调查中纳入的90303名年龄在15 - 49岁的曾婚女性,研究了家庭规模偏好和存活子女的性别构成作为印度女性人工流产决定因素的影响。采用多变量逻辑回归方法来检验人工流产与可能的决定因素之间的关联。结果表明,女性想要限制家庭规模并偏好子女的性别构成,再加上其自主性和社会文化背景,在很大程度上决定了她在印度的人工流产经历。