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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 27.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2011;37(4):749–759. doi: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00455.x

TABLE 5.

Multivariate analysis of factors associated with the number of children born in the past 5 years, currently married women (standardized partial regression coefficients)

Covariates All
countries
Asia and
North
Africa
Latin
America and
Caribbean
West and
Middle
Africa
Eastern and
Southern
Africa
Watch TV −.153 −.038 −.117 −.040 −.069
Listen to radio .006 −.012 −.045 −.010 (.006)
Years of schooling −.066 (.015) −.049 −.060 −.075
Wealth −.039 −.118 −.095 −.038 −.067
Rural residence .013 −.031 .011 .021 .046
Age −.315 −.413 −.367 −.242 −.281
Number of women 451,294 203,888 51,315 117,521 78,570

NOTE: For countries in each region see endnote 1.

( ) not significant at the .05 level ( ) not significant at the .05 level