Abortion and family building models

Fertility limitation in Hungary

Bibliographic Data

ID10968448
AuthorsKathleen Ford (0000-0003-0822-6779, National Center for Health Statistics, corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume13
Issue4
Pages495-505
Publication date1976-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060505
PMID992172
OpenAlexW1983397598
LanguageEN
References cited13

This paper demonstrates how family-building models can be used for checking the quality of abortion data. A family-building model, called FERMODA, is presented and used to check whether the available data on abortion for Hungary are consistent with Hungarian data on other aspects of family building. Model cohorts are generated, using in FERMODA the proportions of women married and the birth and abortion rates of two selected Hungarian cohorts. The estimates obtained from the simulated cohorts concerning use of contraception are compared with the information available on contraception, and, on the basis of this comparison, a judgment is made about the quality of abortion data for Hungary

Abortion · Biology · Demographic economics · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Geography · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Demography · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

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