Table 3.

Logistic regression result of the contraceptive use to delay first birth among ever-married women (aged 15–34 years in India, 2015–16)

Socio Demographic Variable	Crude odds ratio		Adjusted odds ratio
	Odds ratio	C.I(95%) Lower Upper	Odds ratio	C.I(95%) Lower Upper
Place of Residence
Rural	Ref	–	Ref	–
Urban	1.18**	1.14 1.23	0.92	0.88 0.96
Religion
Hindu	Ref	–	Ref	–
Muslim	0.91**	0.86 0.96	0.93*	0.88 0.99
Others	1.05	0.99 1.11	0.76**	0.71 0.81
Caste
SC/ST	ref	–	Ref	–
OBC	0.87**	0.83 0.90	0.88**	0.84 0.92
Others	1.45**	1.39 1.52	1.20**	1.14 1.26
Educational Qualification
No education	Ref	–	Ref	–
Primary	1.41**	1.32 1.50	1.21**	1.13 1.29
Secondary	1.68**	1.60 1.76	1.31**	1.24 1.38
Higher	2.43**	2.29 2.59	1.83**	1.70 1.97
Wealth index
Poor	Ref		Ref
Middle	1.27**	1.21 1.33	1.13**	1.07 1.19
Rich	1.60**	1.54 1.67	1.36**	1.29 1.44
Current Age group
15–19	Ref	–	Ref	–
20–24	1.93**	1.75 2.12	1.90**	1.72 2.09
25–29	1.85**	1.68 2.04	1.83**	1.66 2.01
30–34	1.58**	1.43 1.74	1.57**	1.42 1.74
Age at marriage
< =16	Ref	–	Ref	–
17–22	1.12**	1.08 1.17	0.93**	0.89 0.97
> =23	1.25**	1.18 1.31	0.84**	0.79 0.89
Media
Not at all	Ref	–	Ref	–
Weekly and less weekly	1.46**	1.37 1.55	1.25**	1.17 1.33
Everyday	1.81**	1.72 1.91	1.43**	1.34 1.52
Zones
North	Ref	–		–
South	0.50**	0.46 0.54	0.43**	0.40 0.47
East	1.52**	1.47 1.58	1.70**	1.63 1.77
West	1.34**	1.26 1.42	1.19**	1.11 1.26

** p < 0.01, *p < 0.05