Table 5.
Linear regression using OLS estimators of various characteristics on total children ever born to ever married women aged 40–49, DHS 2013, Nigeria.
| Model 1 | Model 2 | Model 3 | Model 4 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coef. | Linear. Std. Err. | p | Coef. | Linear. Std. Err. | p | Coef. | Linear. Std. Err. | p | Coef. | Linear. Std. Err. | p | |
| Ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| Hausa/Kanuri/Fulani (reference) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Igbo | −1.99 | .18 | *** | −1.25 | .23 | *** | −0.93 | .33 | ** | −0.32 | .29 | |
| Niger-Delta | −2.18 | .16 | *** | −1.49 | .21 | *** | −0.42 | .32 | −0.32 | .28 | ||
| Middle-Belt | −1.77 | .13 | *** | −1.33 | .22 | *** | −0.63 | .30 | * | −0.27 | .26 | |
| Yoruba | −2.99 | .13 | *** | −2.51 | .16 | *** | −1.08 | .28 | *** | −0.47 | .27 | |
| Others | −1.45 | .18 | *** | −.97 | .21 | *** | −0.33 | .27 | −0.11 | .24 | ||
| Religion | ||||||||||||
| Catholic (reference) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Other Christian/Protestant | −.69 | .31 | * | −0.35 | .30 | −0.40 | .31 | |||||
| Islam | 1.46 | .28 | *** | 0.73 | .25 | ** | 0.52 | |||||
| Attitudes towards family planning | ||||||||||||
| Respondent opposed | 0.85 | .16 | *** | 0.73 | .15 | *** | 0.62 | .14 | *** | |||
| Husband opposed | 0.97 | .19 | *** | 0.86 | .19 | *** | 0.79 | .18 | *** | |||
| Rural residence | 0.06 | .19 | 0.04 | .10 | ||||||||
| Age | 0.14 | .01 | *** | 0.13 | .01 | *** | ||||||
| Currently married | 0.98 | .11 | *** | 0.85 | .11 | *** | ||||||
| Zone | ||||||||||||
| South West (reference) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| North Central | 0.05 | .19 | −0.00 | .16 | ||||||||
| North East | 0.55 | .29 | 0.05 | .26 | ||||||||
| North West | 0.90 | .27 | *** | 0.24 | .24 | |||||||
| South East | 0.84 | .25 | *** | 0.43 | .21 | * | ||||||
| South South | −0.04 | .23 | −0.10 | .18 | ||||||||
| Highest educational attainment | ||||||||||||
| No education | 1.15 | .17 | *** | 0.47 | .14 | *** | ||||||
| Primary education | 1.52 | .15 | *** | 0.90 | .13 | *** | ||||||
| Secondary education | 0.76 | .13 | *** | 0.43 | .11 | *** | ||||||
| Higher education (reference) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Employed | 0.26 | .15 | 0.11 | .13 | ||||||||
| Wealth of household | ||||||||||||
| Poorest | 1.20 | .20 | *** | 0.76 | .18 | *** | ||||||
| Poorer | 1.21 | .17 | *** | 0.85 | .15 | *** | ||||||
| Middle | 0.99 | .15 | *** | 0.67 | .14 | *** | ||||||
| Richer | 0.53 | .12 | *** | 0.35 | .10 | *** | ||||||
| Richest (reference) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Married above age 20 | −1.02 | .11 | *** | |||||||||
| Age at first sex | −0.07 | .01 | *** | |||||||||
| Age at first birth | 0.02 | .01 | ||||||||||
| Ideal number of children | 0.25 | .02 | *** | |||||||||
| Constant | 7.66 | .10 | *** | 6.80 | .18 | *** | −3.22 | −69 | *** | −2.22 | .68 | *** |
| N | 6,351 | 6,351 | 6,351 | 6,351 | ||||||||
| R-squared | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.35 | ||||||||
*
p≤.05;
**
p≤.01;
***
p≤.001