Table 2.
Predictive factors influencing number of living children and future fertility∗
| Variables | Number of living children |
P value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1–2 | 3–4 | >4 | ||
| Age (y) | |||||
| ≤25 | 7 (33.33) | 6 (28.57) | 8 (38.10) | 0 (0.00) | .0058† |
| 26–34 | 9 (19.15) | 22 (46.81) | 12 (25.53) | 4 (8.51) | |
| ≥35 | 2 (7.69) | 6 (23.08) | 10 (38.46) | 8 (30.77) | |
| Partner education | |||||
| Primary or below | 6 (20.00) | 8 (26.67) | 7 (23.33) | 9 (30.00) | .0111† |
| Secondary | 6 (15.00) | 20 (50.00) | 13 (32.50) | 1 (2.50) | |
| Higher education | 6 (25.00) | 6 (25.00) | 10 (41.67) | 2 (8.33) | |
| Ideal number of children | |||||
| Participant | 15 (16.0) | 46 (48.9) | 21 (22.3) | 12 (12.8) | <.0001† |
| Partner | 44 (46.8) | 18 (19.1) | 2 (2.1) | 30 (31.9) | |
| Future fertility (correlation between number of future and living children) | |||||
| 0 child | 1 (5.56) | 6 (33.33) | 8 (44.44) | 3 (16.67) | .036‡ |
| 1–2 children | 5 (14.71) | 18 (52.94) | 7 (20.59) | 4 (11.76) | |
| 3–4 children | 6 (20.00) | 17 (56.67) | 3 (10.00) | 4 (13.33) | |
| >4 children | 3 (25.00) | 5 (41.67) | 3 (25.00) | 1 (8.33) | |
∗
Future fertility corresponds to the number of future pregnancies.
†
By χ2 test.
‡
By Spearman correlation coefficient (rs = −0.217); P < .05 (rs significant at .05 level, two-tailed).