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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Demogr Res. 2014 Feb 7;30:413–428. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.14

Table 4.

Odds ratios (with standard errors) for being subsequently infertile obtained through logistic regression for women from the 1992, 1996, 2001–02 and 2007 ZDHS surveys, treating women using contraception as though they were fertile

1992 1996 2001–02 2007

Age group
 20−24 Reference group
 25−29 3.5 (0.3)* 3.5 (0.2)* 3.5 (0.3)* 3.8 (0.3)*
 30−34 5.7 (0.5)* 6.5 (0.5)* 5.8 (0.5)* 7.3 (0.7)*
 35−39 10.4 (1.1)* 12.3 (1.1)* 11.0(1.2)* 14.3 (1.6)*
 40−44 31.0 (3.8)* 33.2 (3.7)* 31.2 (3.9)* 37.9 (5.2)*
 45 and older 83.0 (17.4)* 65.1 (11.1)* 70.6 (13.9)* 66.7 (12.4)*
Time Period**
 1964−1972 Reference group No observations
 1973−1981 1.8 (0.5) 10.6 (7.4)* Reference group
 1982−1990 3.8 (1.2)* 22.9 (16.5)* 1.6 (0.4) Reference group
(1973–1999)
 1991−1999 5.7 (1.8)* 45.2 (32.9)* 2.6 (0.8)*
 2000−2007 N/A N/A 4.2 (1.3)* 1.5 (0.2)*
Intercept 0.01 (0.0)* 0.001 (0.0)* 0.01 (0.0)* 0.02 (0.0)*
Pseudo R2 0.19 0.22 0.19 0.18
Cases 3399 3813 3744 3636
Observations 40233 45708 44099 43040
*

Significant at the p<0.01 level

**

For the 2007 ZDHS most observations were in the latest time period and earlier time periods were combined to adjust for the relatively few observations.