Table 1 Percentage distribution of married, non-pregnant fecund women aged 15–49, by selected characteristics
Characteristic | Desire for more children* | FP use* |
|---|---|---|
Age group | Â | Â |
15–24 | 21.7 | 16.4 |
25–29 | 25.9 | 21.6 |
30–34 | 22.2 | 21.6 |
35–39 | 16.7 | 19.8 |
40+ | 13.5 | 20.6 |
Education | Â | Â |
None | 27.9 | 31.2 |
1–11 years | 33.1 | 34.8 |
12+ complete | 39.1 | 34.0 |
Employed in the past 12Â months | Â | Â |
Yes | 12.2 | 12.9 |
No | 87.8 | 87.1 |
Wealth quintile (six city) | Â | Â |
Poorest | 21.2 | 21.1 |
Poor | 20.7 | 20.4 |
Medium | 20.1 | 20.6 |
Rich | 19.3 | 19.4 |
Richest | 18.7 | 18.6 |
Caste | Â | Â |
Scheduled caste/tribe | 17.4 | 18.5 |
Other backward/extreme backward caste | 42.9 | 42.6 |
None | 39.7 | 38.9 |
Religion | Â | Â |
Muslim | 23.9 | 20.5 |
non-Muslim | 76.1 | 79.5 |
City | Â | Â |
Agra | 24.2 | 23.9 |
Aligarh | 13.1 | 11.4 |
Allahabad | 19.0 | 19.4 |
Gorakhpur | 15.1 | 15.6 |
Moradabad | 9.7 | 9.2 |
Varanasi | 18.9 | 20.6 |
Number of live births | Â | Â |
0–1 | 31.1 | 23.0 |
2 | 30.0 | 26.9 |
3 | 15.9 | 20.2 |
4+ | 23.0 | 30.0 |
Family sex composition | Â | Â |
No living children | 10.6 | 7.8 |
Zero sons, one or more daughters | 17.7 | 13.8 |
Zero daughters, one or more sons | 23.2 | 21.5 |
Equal number of sons and daughters | 21.7 | 21.9 |
Have both sons and daughters, but have more daughters than sons | 14.2 | 17.1 |
Have both sons and daughters, but have more sons than daughters | 12.6 | 17.9 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 |
Number of women (weighted) | 11,022 | 15,036 |