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Abortion in China: Incidence and Implications

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This article addresses the issue of the incidence of abortion during recent years in China. It poses and answers three interrelated questions: (1) What has been the role of abortion in the country’s population planning successes since the early 1970s? (2) What are the patterns of variations in abortion incidence at the provincial level and by place of residence? and, (3) What are the implications of their numbers and variations?

H. Yuan Tien, Modern China 13(4), pp 441-468, copyright 1987 by Sage Publications, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.

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  1. Administratively, China is divided into provinces (2), municipalities (3), and autonomous regions (5). For convenience, all are generally referred to here as provinces.

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Tien, H.Y. (1992). Abortion in China: Incidence and Implications. In: Poston, D.L., Yaukey, D. (eds) The Population of Modern China. The Plenum Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1231-2_11

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