Female sterilization in New South Wales, 1981 to 1994-1995.
This paper investigates and confirms the dramatic decline in female sterilization in New South Wales over the past decade, a period when male sterilization has remained fairly constant. The most significant decline occurred among women under 30 years of age, which resulted in a rise in the mean age at sterilization. In 1994-1995, 70% of sterilization operations were performed for contraceptive management only, 11% were concurrent with Caesarean section, and 9% with abortion. Incidental findings were an increase in Caesarean section and the proportion of women having concurrent sterilization, and a large decline in intrauterine device removals, more than half of which were accompanied with sterilization in 1994-1995. Currently-married women accounted for 80% of sterilization cases. Immigrant women generally had lower incidence of sterilization compared to the Australian-born.
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Demographic Research Group, Macquarie University, New South Wales.
Siedlecky
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Leeder
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D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008875:Middle Aged; D009517:New South Wales; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013246:Sterilization, Tubal / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends