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Article: The effect of socio-economic and demographic factors on contraceptive use and induced abortion in Turkey.
- Article from:
- American Journal of Applied Sciences
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Abstract: The aim of the study was to estimate the parameters of heteroscedastic bivariate Probit model established for the induced abortion and the contraceptive use by using socio-economic and demographic factors and their affects by eliminating the observed heteroscedasticity. Using a heteroscedastic bivariate Probit model and Turkish Demographic and Health Survey (1998) data on married women aged 15 through 49 years, we estimated the probabilities of their having an induced abortion, if induced abortion have, of their using contraceptive methods. The results of the research show that induced abortion is perceived and used as a contraceptive method among the women in ...
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Article: HEALTH-BURKINA FASO: EACH ABORTION A "FAMILY ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;
February 16, 2004 ;
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... ... Ouagadougou. "Each time there's an induced abortion, it's a family planning failure," he adds. While family planning was introduced in Burkina Faso ... many of these girls do not go to family planning clinics because they're afraid ...
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