Codes
This variable is not available for any of the currently selected samples.
Description
CALABORT_TOTAL reports how many abortions women had during the entire length of the reproductive calendar.
The related variable CALABORT indicates whether an abortion occurred during a specific woman-month.
In CALABORT_TOTAL, a value of "0" indicates some other type of pregnancy termination (miscarriage or stillbirth) occurred, but no abortion. A value of 1 or more but less than 99 indicates how many times women had one abortion only during the reproductive calendar period, how many times they had two abortions, and so on.
If a woman experienced one abortion (for example, in the last month of her calendar record), the monthly values recorded for her in CALABORT are "1," "0," "0", and repeated values of "0" back to the start of the calendar period. However, her single instance of an abortion with a code of "1" in one month only in CALABORT gets copied over for each woman-month for that woman, as in "1," "1," and "1" throughout the reproductive calendar period, in CALABORT_TOTAL.
In CALABORT_TOTAL, a value of "99" indicates that no pregnancy terminations of any type occurred during the full length of the reproductive calendar (i.e., all calendar months) for women of childbearing age. For most samples, the number of cases coded "99" (no pregnancy terminations of any kind) in CALABORT_TOTAL is the same as the number of cases coded "0" (no pregnancy terminations) in CALTERM_TOTAL (Total number of pregnancy terminations during the reproductive health calendar). For the explanation for exceptions to this statement, see the county-specific comparability text.
Comparability — Index
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Comparability
Apart from universe differences and instances described in the country-specific comparability text, CALABORT_TOTAL is largely comparable across samples that collected calendar data on the type of pregnancy termination.
Comparability - Standard DHS
CALABORT_TOTAL is based on the string variable V_CAL1 for women's samples that collected calendar data on the type of pregnancy termination.
