Alan Guttmacher Institute National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions, 1987

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Alan Guttmacher Institute National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions, 1987

Investigators: Stanley K. Henshaw, Jane Silverman, Jacqueline Darroch Forrest and Elise Jones

Publication Date: March 23, 2016

Alan Guttmacher Institute National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions, 1987

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1987 Alan Guttmacher Institute National Survey of Contraceptive Use Among Women Having Abortions was a project aimed at producing reliable national estimates of contraceptive failure rates, corrected for the underreporting of abortions. Carried out in 1987, this project is a survey of abortion patients that was designed to fill the need for information on contraceptive use at the time of conception for pregnancies that ended in abortion. A total of 9,480 women who visited a provider to have an abortion in 1987 filled out questionnaires that asked about their recent contraceptive use and about the pregnancy being terminated. The inquiry also covered a variety of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics that parallel information obtained from National Survey of Family Growth respondents (see DAAPPP Data Set Nos. 26 and 27).

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