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KMID : 1155220190440020152
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Journal of the Korean Society of Health Information and Health Statistics
2019 Volume.44 No. 2 p.152 ~ p.159
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The Effect of Wife and Husband’ Socioeconomic Status on the Induced Abortion at Their Prime Childbearing Ages
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Lee Sung-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of the socio-demographic characters on their induced abortion among young married couples in Korea at parity 0 and 1.
Methods: This research uses the data from the Korean National Fertility and Family Welfare Survey conducted by the Korean Institute of Health and Social Affairs in 2012. Since this research concerns on the induced abortion of young married women below 36 at parity 0 and 1, our sample consists of 1,096 ever-married women aged 15 to 35. The data were analyzed with bivariate analyses and multivariate logistic regression at parity 0 and 1.
Results: In bivariate model, women with higher socioeconomic status have lower risk of having the induced abortion at parity 0. In multivariate model analysis, the variables of wife’s stable job and income and husband’s education at parity 0, and only one variable at parity 1 is significant.
Conclusions: The first birth of young women is considered as their choice, not as obligation. Women with stable jobs have higher probability of practicing induced abortion, since they are more likely to value their profession rather than wife-role and having child (ren).
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KEYWORD
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Induced abortion, Fertility, Socio-demographic characteristics of wife, Socio-demographic characteristics of husband, Feminism
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