Summary information

Study title

Survey of Family Planning Services in Scotland, April - July, 1982

Creator

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Social Survey Division

Study number / PID

2693 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2693-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.


The purpose of this survey was to show women's requirements of the family planning services and the way in which they had been changing.
Main Topics:

Variables
Use of family planning services, use of contraceptive methods, pre- marital sexual intercourse. Age, marital status, time.

Topics

Methodology

Data collection period

01/04/1982 - 01/07/1982

Country

Scotland

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals
Groups
National
Women

Universe

Women aged 16 to 54 in Scotland excluding the Orkneys and Shetland.

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Access

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1990

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Related publications

  • Bone, M. (1985) Family planning in Scotland in 1982 [Research report], London: HMSO.
  • Murphy, M. (1989) 'Is there an increase of twinning after discontinuation of the oral contraceptive pill?', Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health