Table 4.
Control experiment 2: Effect of availability of future legal abortion centers over and above the effect of current availability
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any Method | Modern Method | Female Sterilization | Male Sterilization | Modern Method Other Than Sterilization | Traditional Method | Ever Had an Abortion | Share of All Pregnancies Aborted | |
| Number of Abortion Centers | 0.928** | 0.921** | 0.909* | 0.969 | 0.966 | 1.043 | 1.057 | 0.001 |
| (0.0257) | (0.0291) | (0.0374) | (0.0783) | (0.0223) | (0.0469) | (0.0609) | (0.0009) | |
| Number of Abortion Centers at Next Survey Date | 1.020 | 1.022 | 1.035 | 0.970 | 1.001 | 0.982 | 0.958† | -0.000 |
| (0.0173) | (0.0177) | (0.0235) | (0.0372) | (0.0104) | (0.0231) | (0.0245) | (0.0004) | |
| Number of Observations | 23,114 | 23,114 | 22,343 | 23,063 | 23,114 | 22,730 | 22,260 | 21,140 |
| Number of Districts | 75 | 75 | 68 | 73 | 75 | 69 | 66 | 75 |
| Pseudo-R 2 | .1215 | .1173 | .1971 | .1546 | .1144 | .0692 | .1003 | .0318 |
| Mean Value of Dependent Variable | 0.400 | 0.366 | 0.161 | 0.063 | 0.146 | 0.035 | 0.026 | 0.008 |
Notes: Data are omitted for the following variables: two dummy variables for DHS 2001 and 2006; district fixed effects; and controls for urban location, age at interview, religion, and education summarized in Table 1 Panel C. Columns 1–7 report odds ratios from a logit model. Column 8 presents coefficients from a linear regression including a constant (coefficient not reported here). District-correlated robust standard errors are shown in parentheses. Regressions are weighted using survey weights. The sample is married women aged 15–49 who usually reside in the household. Some observations are dropped in columns 3, 4, 6, and 7 because of lack of variation in the value of the dependent variable within district. Observations for women who have never had any pregnancy are dropped in column 8 because the share of aborted pregnancies is not defined for these women.
Sources: Authors’ calculations using Demographic and Health Surveys of Nepal (1996–2006) and Technical Committee for Implementation of Comprehensive Abortion Care (2010).
† p < .10; *p < .05; **p < .01