Table 2.

The determinants of sterilization among young married women in Bengaluru with at least one child: Results of a complementary log-log regression (N=716)

	Odds Ratio	RSE
Woman's Characteristics
Age	1.02	0.05
Education (Dummy – has secondary education?)	1.12	0.30
Has used modern contraceptive method (dummy)?	0.36***	0.10
Woman has any sons (dummy)?±	3.78**	1.57
Total number of children±	3.08***	0.41
Interaction between sons dummy and number of children	0.32***	0.10
Has discussed contraception with husband (dummy)?	1.02	0.27
Has discussed number of children with husband (dummy)?	0.88	0.23
Household Characteristics
Husband has SSLC or higher (dummy)?	1.22	0.34
Husband pressured for additional child (dummy)?	0.88	0.33
In-laws pressured for additional child (dummy)?	0.27	0.22
Household wealth - Quartile 1 (reference)
Household wealth - Quartile 2	1.43	0.54
Household wealth - Quartile 3	2.10**	0.77
Household wealth - Quartile 4	2.00*	0.79
Control Variables
Area: site A vs. site B	0.88	0.22
Period 1 (BL to ML)	0.06**	0.07
Period 2 (ML to EL)	0.05**	0.07

Notes:

^*p-value <0.10;

^**p-value <0.05;

p-value <0.001

^±Variable is centred around its mean.

All models adjusted for clustering at the woman level.