What is it about?
This paper compares two methods to identify women who were likely to have underreported abortion and miscarriage to the National Survey of Family Growth and examined their characteristics.
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Why is it important?
Women are found to underreport abortions and miscarriages in surveys, leading to underestimated prevalence rates of women having had an abortion or a miscarriage. The findings have two important implications. First, it is critical to researchers and policymakers on demography and family growth to understand who underreported abortions and miscarriages in surveys and to understand who were left out in the prevalence rate estimates. Second, it is important for survey researchers to identify likely underreporters so that interventions can be implemented to improve survey data quality.
Perspectives
This paper shows that the social stigma associated with abortion affects women's reporting of abortion to surveys and that miscarriage is a sensitive topic to women as well.
Ting Yan
Westat Inc
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This page is a summary of: Detecting underreporters of abortions and miscarriages in the national study of family growth, 2011–2015, PLOS One, August 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271288.
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