Table 1.

Characteristics of the study participants by type of abortion

	All		Certainly induced abortion		Reportedly spontaneous abortion		P-value
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Participation
Consented	305	99	38	100	267	99
Refused	2	1	0	0	2	1	NC
Residence
Allotted area	230	75	32	84	198	74
Unallotted area	75	25	6	16	69	26	0.23
Education
Not educated	99	33	4	10	95	36
Primary education	65	21	8	21	57	21
Secondary school	117	38	23	61	94	35
University level	24	8	3	8	21	8	0.004
Marital status
Married	186	61	2	5	184	69
Widowed/divorced	21	7	12	32	9	3
Single/never married	98	32	24	63	74	28	<0.001
Age
<20	39	13	14	37	25	9
20–24	83	27	11	29	72	27
25–29	70	23	9	24	61	23
30–34	63	21	3	8	60	22
≥35	50	16	1	2	49	19	<0.001
Number of pregnancies
1	89	29	24	63	65	24
2–4	168	55	12	32	156	59
≥5	48	16	2	5	46	17	<0.001
Number of living children
0	108	35	27	71	81	30
1–3	164	54	9	24	155	58
≥4	33	11	2	5	31	12	<0.001
Chief of the household
Woman herself	234	77	8	21	226	85
Woman’s parents	71	23	30	79	41	15	<0.001
Type of uterine evacuation
Manual vacuum aspiration	133	44	25	66	108	40
Oral product (misoprostol)	101	33	8	21	93	35
Missings	71	23	5	13	66	25	0.01

NC, not calculated.