Effect of gender preference on fertility: cross-sectional study among women of Tharu community from rural area of eastern region of Nepal

Table 4 Binary logistic regression analysis of respondent’s future fertility intention (N = 300)

Future plan of child birth	Independent variables		Unadjusted OR	CI	Adjusted OR	CI
Having desire for more children	Age of the respondents	15–24	10.892**	4.754–24.956	2.650	0.767–9.156
		25–34	4.667**	2.089–10.425	2.185	0.730–6.545
		35–49^R
	Education of the respondents	Illiterate	0.145**	0.056–0.373	0.889	0.413–1.915
		Primary	0.353**	0.194–0.642	0.599	0.168–2.140
		Secondary and above^R
	Sex composition	Only male	9.545**	3.133–29.082	3.577	0.726–17.634
		Only female	34.650**	11.725–102.401	10.153*	2.357–43.732
		Both male and female^R
	Sex of the last child	Female	3.286	1.844–5.853	1.740	0.328–9.215
	Sex of the last child	Male^R
	No. of children	1	13.057**	4.448–38.329	2.472	0.544–11.238
	No. of children	2	1.317	0.396–4.380	0.806	0.206–3.159
		≥3 ^R

*Significance p < 0.05, **Significance p < 0.001.
^R = Reference.
The reference category is NOT having desire of more children.
Hosmer and Lemeshow test was used to find out fit of model. It has been found that this model predicts significantly better χ² (8) = 1.858, p >0.05 = 0.985.

ISSN: 1742-4755