To successfully prevent or decrease the number of unsafe abortions it is necessary to understand the scope of the problem and related factors as up-to-date and as close to reality as possible. So the FP&PD which is responsible for reproductive health conducted this survey to estimate the incidence rate of abortion in Thailand at present.
Due to abortion being illegal in Thailand, It is very difficult to collect abortion data from the private sector. The service providers were not willing to participate in the study and were reluctant to be identified as participants of the study. Therefore the study population was represented by clients of public (government) hospitals. The plan of this project thus started from surveying the readiness of such hospitals and it took 6 months to accumulate 787 voluntary hospitals out of 822 hospitals (95.7%) to enter the project.