Valuations of legal abortion for nationalities in 2008

The Ministry of Health has published today his annual report on the voluntary interruption of the pregnancy with information of the year 2008. It is the first year in which they include pictures with the nationality of the women who abort legally in Spain. We were already provided with information of this type for some region (Madrid, for example), as I have commented one day. Now we can measure, with some vagueness, this aspect to national scale.
For the prompt thing, it is convenient to remember some numbers. In 2008, 115.812 legal abortions were carried out in Spain. Of them, 113.780 correspond to women who were residing in Spanish territory, and 2.032 to not resident women. It is necessary to imagine that between not residents, foreign women are the immense majority, but we cannot be sure because of 1.050 of not residents the nationality does not consist.
Of 113.780 abortions carried out by resident women, we know that 51.088 were corresponding to Spanish women, 49.258 to foreign women and of 13.434 the nationality does not consist. Namely of that the nationality consists, more or less, the half they are Spanish and the half they are foreign. Obviously, since we know that in Spain there are no so many foreign women like Spanish in fertile age, that means that, as we knew, the foreigners who live here are sobrerrepresentadas between those who abort legally in Spain.
To know it, the best thing is to calculate the abortion valuations for nationality and for ages. I have taken the information of the women's abortions from 15 to 44 years of resident women (112.932), which the report of the Department presents divided in stretches of age of five years and I have calculated the valuations on the population from the information of the municipal Electoral roll on January 1, 2008, since it contains the most approximate numbers of Spanish and foreign women. The results appear in the following picture, which they will see better if they click on him (1).

Apparently the abortions valuation (number of abortions for thousand women) for the Spaniards from 15 to 44 years is 6 for thousand, while that of the foreigners is 31,4 for thousand, that is to say, 5 times more, a number similar to the one that I calculated in 2005 for the Community of Madrid. The highest valuation between the foreigners her present the women proceeding from the Sub-Saharan Africa (61,8 for thousand) and the lowest those of North America (11,5 for thousand).
In the following graph the valuations are represented by ages. Perhaps some differences are appreciated better (if they extend it clicking, skylight).

These calculations are approximate: we would lack for assigning the nationality of residents for that it does not consist and perhaps the percentage of registered women changes for region of the world of origin. Nevertheless, to little that they are minimally reasonable, they show us that the nationality of the women who abort is a fundamental factor to understand this phenomenon, and, in his case, to confront it from the civil society or from the public administrations. This was something known, and of it I have realized several times in the blog, but traditionally it has not been born in mind in the analyses of the phenomenon in Spain, that there have preferred to be fixed on variables as the condition of employed of the woman. Now the thing is clear.
_________ (1) The groups for nationalities are those that the Ministry of Health uses, that they coincide with those that the INE uses, except in case of the African ones, which I have grouped. In North Africa I have included the women of Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia (Libya was not differing in the information of the INE). The rest of women of Africa has been included by me in Sub-Saharan Africa.