Determinants of induced abortion in China : hazard analyses /
China has experienced one of the most successful fertility declines in demographic history. Its total fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has if she ages through her reproductive years exposed to age-specific rates) fell from about 6.5 in the 1960s to 1.8 in the year 2000. Induced...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | China has experienced one of the most successful fertility declines in demographic history. Its total fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has if she ages through her reproductive years exposed to age-specific rates) fell from about 6.5 in the 1960s to 1.8 in the year 2000. Induced abortion is recognized as greatly contributing to its fertility decline. This thesis inquires about various individual characteristics and population policy and their effect on Chinese women's hazards of having an abortion. Previous studies on reasons for abortion are presented. Discussions of major reasons for and patterns of Chinese women to have abortions in the special context of China's one-child population policy are also presented. This thesis uses the 1997 Sample Survey of Population and Reproductive Health in China to examine the hazard of having an abortion among ever-married Chinese women. Specifically, this thesis studies the hazard of having an abortion for the pregnancy following ever-married women's first child, and the hazard of having an abortion for the pregnancy following ever-married rural women's second child. Two datasets, 11,762 women with at least one child, and 6,100 rural women with at least two children, are used. Cox proportional hazards models are used in this thesis. For each dataset, eight models are used to study the effects of the covariates on the hazard of having an abortion. Among the population policy factors, namely, a woman's residence, ethnicity, and the time of her pregnancy following her first (or second) child, the time of a woman's pregnancy has the greatest impact on her hazard of having an abortion. As for individual factors, namely, the sex of a woman's first child (the sex composition of a rural woman's first two children in the second dataset), a woman's highest educational achievement, her attitude towards the ideal number of children, a woman's son preference measured by the sex(es) of her previous child(ren) have significant influence on her abortion hazard. The determinants of induced abortion in this thesis have several implications. Both social and policy implications are discussed. Suggestions of future work on this topic are also made. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major subject: Sociology". |
| Physical Description: | ix, 104 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-97). |