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2016-2021 Statistics on Induced Terminations of Pregnancy (ITOP) in Texas
Description
Texas abortion counts and rates by race/ethnicity and county of residence from 2016 to 2021 from the Texas Department of State Health Services (up to June 2018) and the Health and Human Services Commission since then.
Usage
tex_itop
Format
A data frame with 1,524 rows and 18 variables:
- county
County of residence in Texas
- total_itop
Total number of abortions
- asian_itop
Total number of abortions among Asian women between the ages of 15 and 44
- hispanic_itop
Total number of abortions among Hispanic women between the ages of 15 and 44
- white_itop
Total number of abortions among White women between the ages of 15 and 44
- black_itop
Total number of abortions among Black women between the ages of 15 and 44
- native_american_itop
Total number of abortions among Native American women between the ages of 15 and 44
- other_itop
Total number of abortions among women of other races or ethnicities between the ages of 15 and 44
- year
year
- urban
Indicator for whether the county is 'rural' or 'urban' according to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
- total_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 44
- asian_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 Asian women between the ages of 15 and 44
- hispanic_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 Hispanic women between the ages of 15 and 44
- white_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 White women between the ages of 15 and 44
- black_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 Black women between the ages of 15 and 44
- native_american_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 Native American women between the ages of 15 and 44
- other_rate
Abortion rate per 1000 women of other races or ethnicities between the ages of 15 and 44
- county_type
Indicator for whether the county is urban, suburban, or rural according to the RUCC (rural-urban continuum codes) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2013. Counties with Rural-Urban Continuum codes of 1-3 were categorized as urban, counties with codes of 4-7 were categorized as suburban, and counties with codes of 8 or 9 were categorized as rural.
Note from the data website: for the year 2020, "Data do not include 82 reports submitted after statutory deadlines and that were not available when annual data were compiled."
Source
Abortion counts by county and race/ethnicity were obtained from Texas Health and Human Services ISTOP Statistics at the following link:
https://www.hhs.texas.gov/about/records-statistics/data-statistics/itop-statistics
To calculate abortion rates, total female populations between the ages of 15 and 44 were retrieved using the tidycensus package in R:
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidycensus
Census codes for females between the ages of 15 and 44 by each race/ethnicity were retrieved from the following website:
https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/dhc/variables.html.
Information on whether counties are categorized as rural or urban was obtained from the 2022 Index of Texas Counties from the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
The 2013 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were obtained from the following site:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/rural-urban-continuum-codes/