Table 2.

Percent distribution of sterilized respondents by marital status.

	Female sample (N=1,618)		Male sample (N=359)
	Percentage	95% CI	Percentage	95% CI
Never-married single	9.0%	6.8% – 11.3%	3.2%	0.2% – 6.2%
Ever-married single	8.3%	6.1% – 10.5%	3.3%	1.3% – 5.3%
Never-married cohabitation	9.3%	7.2% – 11.3%	0.1%	−0.1% – 0.4%
Ever-married cohabitation	3.8%	2.6% – 5.1%	1.3%	−0.8% – 3.4%
First-order marriage	59.9%	55.7% – 64.1%	77.6%	70.8% – 84.5%
Higher-order marriage	9.7%	7.6% – 11.7%	14.5%	8.5% – 20.4%

Note: CI = confidence interval.