Open AccessDeclining Induced Abortion Rate in Finland: Data Quality of the Finnish Abortion Register
Author(s) -
Mika Gissler,
VeliMatti Ulander,
Elina Hemminki,
Anja Rasimus
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/25.2.376
Subject(s) - abortion , medicine , register (sociolinguistics) , demography , data quality , induced abortions , pregnancy , family medicine , family planning , obstetrics , population , environmental health , research methodology , operations management , metric (unit) , philosophy , linguistics , genetics , sociology , economics , biology
Induced abortion rates have declined in Finland since 1973. A possible explanation offered has been that of deteriorating data collection.
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