Table 3.

Multivariate logistic regression findings for desire for more children among married, non-pregnant fecund women aged 15–49

Variables	Want no more vs. want more children /undecided
	OR (95% CI)
Family sex composition
No living children	0.01 (0.00–0.02)***
Zero sons, one or more daughters	0.10 (0.07–0.13)***
Zero daughters, one or more sons	0.44 (0.33–0.58)***
Equal number of sons and daughters	0.98 (0.72–1.34)
Have both sons and daughters, but have more daughters than sons (ref)	1.00
Have both sons and daughters, but have more sons than daughters	3.73 (2.40–5.81)***
Age group
15–24	0.04 (0.03–0.06)***
25–29	0.07 (0.05–0.11)***
30–34	0.13 (0.09–0.21)***
35–39	0.33 (0.21–0.53)***
40+ (ref)	1.00
Education
None	0.45 (0.36–0.57)***
1–11 years	0.69 (0.56–0.83)***
12+ complete (ref)	1.00
Employed in the past 12 months
Yes	1.51 (1.21–1.90)***
No (ref)	1.00
Wealth quintile (six city)
Poorest	0.94 (0.76–1.16)
Poor	0.88 (0.71–1.10)
Medium	0.96 (0.77–1.19)
Rich	0.93 (0.74–1.17)
Richest (ref)	1.00
Caste
Scheduled caste/tribe	0.63 (0.50–0.79)***
Other backward/extreme backward caste	0.73 (0.61–0.86)***
None (ref)	1.00
Religion
Muslim	0.41 (0.34–0.49)***
non-Muslim (ref)	1.00
City
Agra	0.72 (0.57–0.92)**
Aligarh	0.99 (0.79–1.24)
Allahabad	1.16 (0.91–1.47)
Gorakhpur (ref)	1.00
Moradabad	0.78 (0.63–0.98)*
Varanasi	1.00 (0.79–1.27)
Residence
Slum	0.94 (0.81–1.10)
Non-slum (ref)	1.00
Parity
0–1	0.02 (0.02–0.03)***
2	0.31 (0.24–0.39)***
3	0.43 (0.33–0.57)***
4+ (ref)	1.00

Unweighted n = 11,014; +p ≤ .10; *p ≤ .05; **p ≤ .01; ***p ≤ .001.