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Table 6 One-year abortion incidence (per 1000) of female respondents age 15 to 49 and their closest female confidantes age 15 to 49 by country and adjustment for biases

From: Social network-based measurement of abortion incidence: promising findings from population-based surveys in Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Rajasthan, India

 

Respondent

Confidante 1a

Confidante 2a

Estimate

SE

Estimate

SE

Estimate

SE

Nigeria

n = 11,106

n = 5883

n = 1953

 Unadjusted

18.7

1.94

27.7

2.78

22.2

4.44

 + Less certain confidante abortions

--

--

37.3

3.63

30.9

5.88

 + Poisson adjustment for missing confidantes

--

--

35.1

2.04

28.7

1.65

Cote d’Ivoire

n = 2738

n = 1761

n = 263

 Unadjusted

18.8

3.56

23.4

4.14

33.2

11.35

 + Less certain confidante abortions

--

--

32.3

5.17

42.0

11.86

 + Poisson adjustment for missing confidantes

--

--

31.5

3.40

46.3

3.96

Rajasthan

n = 5832

n = 4912

n = 1118

 Unadjusted

7.0

1.24

10.2

3.91

11.1

4.30

 + Less certain confidante abortions

--

--

15.6

4.80

17.1

4.77

 + Poisson adjustment for missing confidantes

--

--

15.2

4.68

16.7

4.54

  1. Bold indicates statistical significance in comparison to unadjusted respondent incidence
  2. aPoisson modeled confidante estimates’ sample sizes are equivalent to the corresponding respondent sample size for that country