Unintended pregnancy rate - Revision history

Vipul at 21:56, 15 February 2014

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	==Definition==		==Definition==

	The '''unintended pregnancy rate''' of a population in a given year is defined as the number of [[unintended pregnancy\|unintended pregnancies]] in that population per 1000 women of [[childbearing age]] in the given year.		The '''unintended pregnancy rate''' of a population in a given year is defined as the number of [[unintended pregnancy\|unintended pregnancies]] in that population per 1000 women of [[childbearing age]] in the given year. Note that this includes both the unintended pregnancies that result in births and the unintended pregnancies that do not result in births (due to [[abortion]] or unintended fetal death).

	==What does it take to compute the unintended pregnancy rate?==		==What does it take to compute the unintended pregnancy rate?==

Vipul at 21:53, 15 February 2014

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			{{ratio measure\|
			numerator = number of unintended pregnancies\|
			denominator = number of females of childbearing age\|
			reporting denominator = 1000\|
			measurement period = year\|
			numerator type = event\|
			denominator type = entity}}

	==Definition==		==Definition==

	The '''unintended pregnancy rate''' of a population in a given year is defined as the number of [[unintended pregnancy\|unintended pregnancies]] in that population per 1000 women of [[childbearing age]] in the given year.		The '''unintended pregnancy rate''' of a population in a given year is defined as the number of [[unintended pregnancy\|unintended pregnancies]] in that population per 1000 women of [[childbearing age]] in the given year.

			==What does it take to compute the unintended pregnancy rate?==

			The unintended pregnancy rate is not ''measured'' based on data collection for all (or the vast majority of) pregnancies. Rather, it is ''estimated'' based on data collection for a representative sample of pregnancies. The estimation procedures have not been standardized and a lot of data on unintended pregnancy rates is in rudimentary form.

			The issues with measurement are:

			* There is no central registration process for pregnancies (unlike births, which tend to be registered during the process of generating birth certificates).
			* There is no central record of abortions. If there were, then abortions plus births (including live births and stillbirths) would give an ''almost'' complete picture of (detected) pregnancies. A number of detected pregnancies that spontaneously abort would go unrecorded.
			* There is no standardized process for determining whether a give birth was intended. This is not part of the data collection done at the time of birth.

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==Definition==

The '''unintended pregnancy rate''' of a population in a given year is defined as the number of [[unintended pregnancy|unintended pregnancies]] in that population per 1000 women of [[childbearing age]] in the given year.