Table 3.

Multinomial logistic regression models predicting the desire to delay the next birth versus want a child soon or want to stop childbearing based on individual and household characteristics

	Later vs. Soon		Later vs. Stop
	b	SE	b	SE
Intercept	−0.17	0.32	1.68***	0.33
Number of Living Children	0.32***	0.07	−0.59***	0.07
Age of Youngest Living Child (years)
<2 (ref.)
2–4	−0.74***	0.16	−0.10	0.15
5–9	−0.98***	0.23	0.17	0.24
10+/no living children	−1.64***	0.33	−0.49	0.38
Age (years)
<24 (ref.)
25–29	0.01	0.19	−0.10	0.21
30–34	−0.19	0.22	−0.24	0.24
35–39	−0.17	0.29	−0.41	0.29
40 and over	0.25	0.41	−0.89*	0.38
Marital Status
Not married	0.76*	0.30	−0.81**	0.26
Married to nonmigrant (ref.)
Married to successful migrant	−0.38*	0.17	0.04	0.18
Married to unsuccessful migrant	0.36†	0.19	−0.02	0.19
Education and Economic Resources
No formal schooling (ref.)
1–4 years of schooling	−0.11	0.17	−0.22	0.16
5 or more years of schooling	0.06	0.18	−0.11	0.18
Household wealth index (1–4)	−0.05	0.07	0.01	0.07
Household owns cattle	0.20	0.15	0.34*	0.15
Days in past week ate meat, chicken, or fish	−0.05	0.04	−0.09*	0.04
Health
Very worried about HIV	−0.10	0.14	0.03	0.14
Good self-rated health	−0.21	0.16	0.28†	0.16
−2 Log Likelihood	3,083

Note: N = 1,785 women interviewed in the second wave with nonmissing data on dependent and independent variables.

^†p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001