Table 3.

Bivariate analyses of reporting abortion is ‘always wrong’ in South Africa in 2013.

Variable	Foetal anomaly	Family poverty	Both cases
African-isiXhosa	12.51***	34.14***	11.5***
African-isiZulu	2.65	2	4.41*
African-Sepedi	12.32***	5.29*	11.58**
African-Setswana	6.12*	12.33***	10.23**
African-Sesotho	7.8**	11.16***	5.23*
African-other African	4.04*	0.85	3.99*
Coloured-Afrikaans	0.06	0.15	0.06
Coloured-English	0.01	3.93*	0.04
Indian-any	1.75	4.47*	2.63
White-Afrikaans	1.8	0.083	0.893
White-English	12.44***	6.25*	9.45**
Primary education or less	5.55*	3.19	0.26
Some secondary education	0.74	1.97	0.773
Completed secondary education	0.42	4.16*	10.49**
Some tertiary education	12.15***	1.52	6.24*
Lower class	6.24	0.28	6.27*
Working class	1.13	0.47	1.32
Middle/upper class	3.48	1.56	2.98
Western Cape	12.93***	28.32***	11.59***
Eastern Cape	2.77	9.69**	3.42
Northern Cape	1.91	5.13*	1.99
Free State	0.043	12.3***	0.01
KwaZulu-Natal	16.6***	0.24	21.7***
Northwest	4.58*	6.21*	6.25*
Gauteng	14.53***	4.82*	16.67***
Mpumalanga	1.86	3.32	3.91*
Limpopo	30.15***	10.43**	29.54***
Urban-formal	2.18	1.67	1.76
Urban-informal	0.88	0.39	1.66
Rural	0.88	1	0.18
Female	2.56	3.4	3.82
Not religious	0.41	0.54	0.34
Christian	0.05	0.51	0.05
Other religion	0.61	0.09	0.54
Extremely Liberal/Left	0.17	0.92	0.35
Liberal/Left	0.67	0.09	0.23
Slightly Liberal/Left	7.03**	8.01**	9.25**
Moderate	0.58	0.01	0.15
Slightly Conservative/Right	0.08	0.85	0.02
Conservative/Right	0.57	3.35	1.04
Extremely Conservative	6.58*	0.45	5.38*
Don’t know	2.03	0.02	0.84

F-statistics are presented (e.g., African-Xhosa compared to all others).

^***p < .001;

^**p < .01;

^*p < .05.

Significantly greater proportions bolded, lower proportions italicised.