Table 2.

Distribution of wives’ short-term fertility intentions by occupational assortative mating patterns.

Occupational assortative mating	Whether plan to have children in the next 2 years		Total
	No	Yes
Hypergamy	328 (80.99%)	77 (19.01%)	405 (100%)
Core middle-class homogamy	269 (71.93%)	105 (28.07%)	374 (100%)
Non-core middle-class homogamy	144 (81.36%)	33 (18.64%)	177 (100%)
Ordinary laborers homogamy	553 (87.09%)	82 (12.91%)	635 (100%)
Hypogamy	576 (79.56%)	148 (20.44%)	724 (100%)
Total	1,870 (80.78%)	445 (19.22%)	2,315 (100%)