Table 5.
Percentage of married, non-pregnant fecund women aged 15–49 using a family planning method, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Method mix (n = 11,043)* ‡ |
|
|
|
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| Female sterilization |
0.0 |
8.1 |
27.3 |
33.2 |
48.4 |
56.9 |
36.1 |
| Male sterilization |
0.0 |
0.5 |
0.1 |
0.2 |
0.2 |
0.3 |
0.2 |
| Pill |
1.0 |
5.4 |
5.0 |
5.5 |
5.0 |
3.8 |
4.9 |
| IUD |
0.0 |
4.8 |
5.8 |
6.2 |
2.2 |
1.7 |
4.2 |
| Injectables |
0.0 |
1.3 |
0.9 |
0.7 |
0.3 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
| Condom |
64.2 |
46.0 |
34.7 |
29.3 |
22.3 |
17.9 |
29.3 |
| Other modern |
0.0 |
1.9 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.7 |
0.6 |
0.9 |
| Traditional |
34.8 |
32.1 |
25.5 |
24.0 |
21.0 |
18.2 |
23.7 |
| 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.