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
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Desire for another child (n = 11,022)*‡ |
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| 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)*‡ |
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| 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 |
*All percentages and n’s are weighted; ‡F statistic p-value is p ≤ .001.