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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2011 Dec;37(4):191–201. doi: 10.1363/3719111

Table 1.

Selected sociodemographic and abortion-visit characteristics of women surveyed (N=402)

Characteristic Percent or mean N
Sociodemographic characteristics
Mean age (years) 25.5 (6.0) 402
High school graduate
 No 40 160
 Yes 60 240
Residence
 Mexico City 71 285
 Other Mexican state 29 117
Current marital status
 Unmarried 58 234
 Married or in civil union 42 168
Parity
 Nulliparous 43 173
 Parous 57 229
Previous induced abortion reported 9 38
Abortion-visit characteristics
Site of care
 General hospital 33 134
 Maternity hospital 33 134
 Primary health center 33 134
Type of abortion procedure
 Medication abortion 48 192
 Surgical abortion 52 210
Current procedure was a follow-up to an incomplete medication abortion
 Yes 13 53
 No 87 349
Client reported being offered a choice of abortion procedure
 Yes 46 186
 No 54 216
Mean gestation age (weeks) 8.4 (2.1) 402
Sex of the doctor who peformed the abortion
 Male 52 210
 Female 48 192

Note: Figures in parentheses are standard deviations.