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Table 2 Percentage of married, non-pregnant fecund women aged 15–49 and their desire for more children and percentage using family planning methods, by family sex composition

From: The effect of family sex composition on fertility desires and family planning behaviors in urban Uttar Pradesh, India

Variables

No living children

Zero sons, one or more daughters

Zero daughters, one or more sons

Equal number of sons and daughters

Have both sons and daughters, but have more daughters than sons

Have both sons and daughters, but have more sons than daughters

Total

Desire for another child (n = 11,022)*‡

   

Want more children/undecided/do not know spouse’s desire

99.7

66.1

43.8

8.3

5.3

1.5

35.1

Want no more

0.3

33.9

56.2

91.8

94.8

98.5

64.9

FP Use (n = 15,036)*‡

   

Modern

6.6

46.0

57.0

62.1

63.6

69.5

56.0

Traditional

3.5

21.7

19.5

19.6

16.9

15.5

17.4

Non-use

89.9

32.3

23.6

18.3

19.6

15.0

26.6

Total

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

100.0

  1. *All percentages and n’s are weighted; ‡F statistic p-value is p ≤ .001.