ABORYMEANS
Aborted because no means to take care of child
Performance Monitoring for Action
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For women who have had an abortion, ABORYMEANS indicates whether one reason that motivated the woman to remove her pregnancy was that she had no means to take care of the child. Women could report more than one motivating reason for the abortion.
The question associated with this variable was included in the female questionnaire.
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