Use of Randomized Response Technique to Measure the Induced Abortion Levels in Multan

Abstract

Objectives:

 The objectives include finding out the status of induced abortion for Multan using RRT and specifying the aspects of women who practiced an abortion.

Material and methods:

The population of the study consists of women from Multan. Convenient sampling was used to collect data from women. A total of 217 women were interviewed. The survey was conducted using questionnaires and randomized response methods. An innocent question was used for an unrelated question method. We collected the data from visiting females from different maternity clinics, visiting mothers in girls' schools, and teachers in girls' schools. Our sample contained 217 women of the age group 15-55. The data analysis was done on SPSS.

Results:

 Our study shows the predicted induced abortion of women in their lives is 63 percent with a standard error of 0.064.

Discussion and Conclusion:

Our proportion for induced abortion was 63 percent. The ratio of induced abortion was high (31.46%) for the older women who were from the city (20.99%) and had high education levels (33.92%), in contrast with other categories. The proportions of induced abortion were also found for different groupings of knowledge among women. They can get easy access to such clinics that give facilities for induced abortion. One thing is the act of abortion, and the other one is to hide it. However, our technique is important to get information about these acts, which women are reluctant to discuss. Our methodology estimated truthful responses.