Table 2.
Birth histories distribution by parity level, completeness, and matching score
| Parity level | Birth histories | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete | Incomplete | ||||||
| Relative matching score (%) | |||||||
| Zero | (0–25] | (25–50] | (50–75] | (75–100] | |||
| Zero | 57,672 | – | – | – | – | – | 57,672 |
| 100 | – | – | – | – | – | 100 | |
| One | 91,370 | 19,588 | – | – | – | – | 1,10,958 |
| 82 | 18 | – | – | – | – | 100 | |
| Two | 2,17,649 | 23,287 | – | – | – | 55,576 | 2,96,512 |
| 73 | 8 | – | – | – | 19 | 100 | |
| Three | 1,83,711 | 19,100 | – | 2182 | – | 1,22,921 | 3,27,914 |
| 56 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 37 | 100 | |
| Four | 89,068 | 12,223 | – | 1663 | 9225 | 1,21,148 | 2,33,327 |
| 38 | 5 | – | 1 | 4 | 52 | 100 | |
| Five to six | 73,150 | 13,482 | 109 | 4600 | 36,169 | 1,77,218 | 3,04,728 |
| 24 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 58 | 100 | |
| Seven and more | 40,938 | 28,279 | 1748 | 17,400 | 95,804 | 2,53,220 | 4,37,389 |
| 9 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 58 | 100 | |
| Total | 7,53,558 | 1,15,959 | 1857 | 25,845 | 1,41,198 | 7,30,083 | 17,68,500 |
| (%) | 42.6 | 6.6 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 8.0 | 41.3 | 100 |
Note A birth history is assumed to be complete when the number of children ever born reported by a woman equals the number of own children present in the household at the time of the census. Information on children ever born comes from the variable: CHBORN. Own children are identified using the variables: MOMLOC and STEPMOM. Birth misreporting is ignored because it is unlikely to be consequential for the results