Recommendations for abortion surveys using the ballot-box technique.
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The article lists recommendations for dealing with methodological aspects of an abortion survey and makes suggestions for testing and validating the survey questionnaire. The recommendations are based on the experience of the Brazilian Abortion Survey (PNA), a random sample household survey that used the ballot-box technique and covered adult women in all urban areas of the country.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Ciencia & saude coletiva
دوره 17 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012