Table 10.
Percent of abortions involving non-recommended methods and sources among female respondents aged 15–49 and their closest female friends aged 15–49 in Kinshasa and Kongo Central, DRC, by background characteristics*
| Respondent (n = 455) | Adjusted friend** (n = 514) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | 95% CI | % | 95% CI | |||
| Age | ||||||
| 15–19 | 24.2 | 9.1 | 39.4 | 31.4 | 19.9 | 42.9 |
| 20–29 | 21.7 | 15.3 | 28.1 | 18.8 | 11.7 | 25.9 |
| 30–39 | 17.3 | 10.2 | 24.4 | 19.8 | 9.6 | 29.9 |
| 40–49 | 24.9 | 9.7 | 40.1 | 28.3 | 15.7 | 40.9 |
| Education | ||||||
| Never | 50.8 | 0.0 | 112.6 | 64.7 | 35.8 | 93.7 |
| Primary | 27.2 | 11.7 | 42.7 | 43.7 | 19.9 | 67.5 |
| Secondary | 21.3 | 15.6 | 26.9 | 22.0 | 16.4 | 27.7 |
| Tertiary | 14.6 | 4.8 | 24.4 | 10.0 | 2.4 | 17.5 |
| Currently married | ||||||
| No | 19.8 | 13.7 | 25.8 | 22.2 | 14.2 | 30.1 |
| Yes | 22.4 | 13.8 | 31.0 | 21.6 | 14.2 | 28.9 |
| Wealth tertile | ||||||
| Poorest | 23.9 | 14.7 | 33.1 | – | – | – |
| Middle wealth | 13.6 | 6.9 | 20.4 | – | – | – |
| Wealthiest | 25.7 | 16.5 | 34.9 | – | – | – |
| Province*** | ||||||
| Kinshasa | 17.0 | 11.5 | 22.4 | 17.1 | 12.0 | 22.2 |
| Kongo Central | 29.7 | 18.2 | 41.2 | 34.2 | 18.8 | 49.7 |
| Parity | ||||||
| 0 | 23.2 | 13.7 | 32.8 | 20.9 | 13.9 | 27.9 |
| 1+ | 20.3 | 14.1 | 26.4 | 22.5 | 15.4 | 29.6 |
| Total | 21.0 | 15.5 | 26.4 | 21.9 | 15.9 | 27.9 |
*Estimates weighted, Ns unweighted; bold indicates statistically significantly difference at the p < 0.05 level (comparing proportions across categories) based on design-based F test.
**Adjusted friend data includes respondent abortion details in place of “missing” confidantes; post-stratification weights applied.
***Estimates differ from those in Table 9 as we could not weight data in this table using province specific weights since we combined data across provinces.