Table 1

Proportion of women who had an abortion when last pregnancy was unintended according to sociodemographic and reproductive characteristics and to factors related to the relationship, by age groups (%)

	Age of the women at the time of the last pregnancy
	<25 years		25–34 years		⩾35years		Total
	n=141	%	n=350	%	n=154	%	n=645	%
N are crude values, for example, number of interviewed women, % are weighted. χ² Test within age groups and in total sample, p<0.05, p<0.01, **p<0.001 (abortion v birth)
Sociodemographic characteristics
Marital status						**		*
Married	21	18	175	43	104	38	300	39
Co-habitant	41	36	100	39	25	44	166	39
Single	66	60	55	52	21	96	142	62
No information	13	41	20	50	4	84	37	47
Age of the partner						**
<25	68	36	12	26	-	-	80	35
25–29	46	48	86	38	6	3	138	37
30–34	23	62	139	44	26	52	188	46
35–39	3	20	76	42	63	58	142	46
⩾40	1	100	37	64	59	64	97	65
Education of the woman		**				**
No/minimum qualification	21	19	87	48	31	32	139	40
Less than high school	38	41	110	39	39	51	187	41
High school or + 2 years	59	62	100	35	57	80	216	53
Higher education	23	86	53	45	27	58	103	58
Education of the partner		**				**		*
No/minimum qualification	20	17	48	42	17	8	85	30
Less than high school	31	30	125	36	45	60	201	39
High school or + 2 years	45	73	77	50	27	65	149	59
Higher education	13	76	43	46	40	75	96	64
Other/don’t know/no response	32	41	57	51	25	58	114	49
Material life conditions
Work status of the woman		*				***		*
Working	61	34	235	41	113	64	409	45
Student	54	67	10	48	-	-	64	66
Unemployed	9	54	20	72	7	82	36	69
Inactive	16	19	85	42	34	13	135	33
Work status of the partner		**						**
Working	91	35	310	43	139	52	540	43
Student	26	90	5	90	-	-	31	90
Unemployed/inactive	21	37	33	49	15	29	69	40
How pregnancy fits to work situation		*				***		**
Not a good moment	34	57	112	52	52	89	198	60
Well/didn’t matter	27	17	123	31	61	46	211	31
Not working	80	48	115	47	41	22	236	44
Financial and material situation
Difficult	50	32	133	49	53	51	236	47
Other	91	46	217	40	101	48	409	43
Relationship
Duration of the relationship						***
⩾5 year	11	13	143	49	79	36	233	43
1–5	40	52	68	43	18	84	126	51
<1 year	66	49	54	61	13	94	133	57
Situation of the relationship						***		*
Stable	59	33	242	37	120	36	421	36
New	41	64	39	45	6	77	86	54
Uncertain	19	30	26	63	14	94	59	56
No future/about to end	22	61	42	60	14	100	78	65
Agreement with partner about abortion		*				***
We agreed what to do	89	43	230	38	110	40	429	39
I wanted abortion, he didn’t	17	71	33	59	13	91	63	67
I wanted to continue pregnancy, he didn’t	14	14	49	44	18	37	81	32
Reproductive characteristics
Number of children before				***				**
0	110	47	81	38	10	28	201	44
1	23	26	101	16	24	67	148	25
2	6	62	120	54	73	57	199	55
⩾3	3	49	48	65	47	36	97	54
Time from previous birth
<1 year	1	100	11	93	-	-	12	93
1–2	20	32	101	44	30	42	151	42
>3 years	10	21	154	42	114	52	278	44
No children/earlier births	112	47	81	36	10	28	201	43