TABLE 4.
Risk of giving birth within three years post interview by whether women had exceeded their IFS or were below their IFS at time of interview. The Pearson Chi-Square compares women with IFS less than parity (did not want more children) and women with IFS greater than parity (wanted more children) for each region
| All women interviewed |
Women with IFS < parity |
Women with IFS > parity |
Pearson Chi-square |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | No. Women |
No. b irths |
New birth (%) |
No. women |
No. births |
New birth (%) |
No. women |
No. births |
New birth (%) |
Relative risk |
χ2 | P-value |
| Near town | 91 | 56 | 61.54 | 47 | 30 | 63.83 | 30 | 16 | 53.33 | 0.84 | 0.216 | 0.402 |
| Forest | 64 | 27 | 42.19 | 28 | 12 | 42.86 | 24 | 10 | 41.67 | 0.97 | 0.009 | 0.563 |
| Mission | 64 | 40 | 62.50 | 21 | 8 | 38.10 | 23 | 19 | 82.61 | 2.17 | 7.943 | 0.006 |
| River | 86 | 40 | 46.51 | 28 | 9 | 32.14 | 37 | 20 | 54.05 | 1.68 | 3.445 | 0.051 |
| Total | 305 | 163 | 53.44 | 124 | 59 | 47.58 | 114 | 65 | 57.02 | 1.20 | 2.886 | 0.057 |