Table III. Factors determining infertility and childlessness among currently married women aged 20-49 married for above 5 years, National Family Health Survey 1998-999 and 2005-2006.

	Primary Infertility				Childlessness
	NFHS-2		NFHS-3		NFHS-2		NFHS-3
Background Characteristics	Exp (β)	Significance level	Exp (β)	Significance level	Exp (β)	Significance level	Exp (β)	Significance level
Age Of Women
20-24®
5-29	0.69	0.00	0.51	0.00	0.59	0.00	0.51	0.00
30-34	0.51	0.00	0.38	0.00	0.45	0.00	0.41	0.00
35-39	0.39	0.00	0.38	0.00	0.39	0.00	0.37	0.00
40-44	0.40	0.00	0.36	0.00	0.40	0.00	0.35	0.00
45-49	0.43	0.00	0.36	0.00	0.44	0.00	0.37	0.00
Age At First Marriage
18 years and below®
Above 18 years	1.86	0.00	1.81	0.00	1.87	0.00	1.81	0.00
Place Of Residence
Urban®
Rural	0.82	0.01	0.92	0.27	0.80	0.00	0.92	0.18
Religion
Hindu®
Muslim	0.78	0.01	1.03	0.77	0.83	0.02	0.87	0.09
Christian	0.90	0.60	0.66	0.07	1.05	0.73	0.78	0.16
Others	1.11	0.52	1.14	0.45	0.92	0.60	1.05	0.73
Caste
Scheduled Caste®
Scheduled Tribe	1.21	0.09	1.31	0.02	1.29	0.00	1.45	0.00
Others	1.05	0.52	1.02	0.80	1.05	0.48	1.09	0.18
Education
No Education®
Primary	0.71	0.00	0.96	0.69	0.68	0.00	1.01	0.94
Secondary	0.74	0.00	0.96	0.65	0.62	0.00	0.87	0.07
Higher	0.48	0.00	1.20	0.23	0.48	0.00	0.88	0.37
Mass Media Exposure
None®
Partial	1.05	0.48	1.06	0.44	1.10	0.09	1.10	0.15
Full	1.11	0.43	1.03	0.83	1.24	0.05	1.08	0.45
Standard Of Living Index
Low®
Medium	0.89	0.11	0.80	0.00	0.87	0.01	0.76	0.00
High	1.03	0.78	0.72	0.00	0.87	0.13	0.64	0.00
Currently Working
No®
Yes	1.20	0.01	1.23	0.00	1.17	0.00	1.13	0.02

®=Reference category; Dependent variable 1) Primary infertility=1, No=0; 2) Childlessness=1, No=0