The Epidemiology of Unsafe Abortions in Kenya, Abortion Incidence and Complication from Unsafe abortions in Kenya

KENYA, 2012
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center, ,

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301A Rural- Incomplete abortion (v301ra)

Data file: Health Profesional Survey Data

Overview

vald 116

invd 8

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 9

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Q301. Considering rural areas, please indicate which forms of short term health complications apart from death, result commonly, sometimes or never from induced abortion in your province.

Now considering urban areas....

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Never/Rarely	2	1.7%
2	Sometimes	33	28.4%
3	Commonly	81	69.8%
9	Missing	0	0%
Sysmiss		8

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question pretext

Now, I would like to talk to you about abortion complications. As you know, complications that result from induced abortion range in severity. When we speak of abortion complications, we are referring to those consequences that are severe enough to need treatment in a health facility, whether or not the woman actually obtains health care.

Question post text

Interviewer: Please read each type of complication and circle the respondents answers for each type of complication

Description

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Frequency of short term complications fron induced abortions

Universe

All respondents