title: Recommendations for abortion surveys using the ballot-box technique.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, DF. mclmdr@unb.br
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Medeiros
authors.forename: Debora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Diniz
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006306:Health Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires