Table 3.
Logistic regressions of women's fertility desire according to the number of current children
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One Child
|
Two Children
|
Three Children
|
|
|
O.R. (S.E.)
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O.R. (S.E.)
|
O.R. (S.E.)
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|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | |
| Group 1: Women with one child (Ref. one son) | 0.001 | ||
| One daughter | 1.468** | - | - |
| (0.212) | |||
| Group 2: Women with two children (Ref. two sons) | |||
| Two daughters | 3.851*** | - | |
| (0.864) | |||
| One son and one daughter | 1.072 | - | |
| (0.233) | |||
| Group 3: Women with three or more children (Ref. All sons) | |||
| All daughters | - | - | 9.792** |
| (10.39) | |||
| Mix gender | - | - | 0.160* |
| (0.151) | |||
| Sex ratio at birth at provincial level | 1.03 | 0.993 | 1.088* |
| (0.0201) | (0.0171) | (0.0497) | |
| Age of mother | 0.900* | 0.833*** | 0.968 |
| (0.0653) | (0.0554) | (0.179) | |
| Age at first marriage | 1.086** | 1.077* | 0.874 |
| (0.0454) | (0.0445) | (0.0851) | |
| Age group of mothers at last birth (Ref. 15-20) | |||
| 20-24 | 1.062 | 8.836* | - |
| (0.345) | (10.05) | ||
| 25-29 | 0.796 | 12.30** | 0.884 |
| (0.407) | (15.06) | (1.108) | |
| 30-34 | 0.405 | 6.399 | 0.320 |
| (0.306) | (8.77) | (0.617) | |
| 35-39 | 0.196 | 5.119 | 0.303 |
| (0.202) | (8.399) | (0.874) | |
| 40 and older | 0.118 | - | - |
| (0.168) | |||
| Living with a male partner (Ref. Not living with a male partner) | 11.11*** | 4.370** | - |
| Husband-wife gender equality attitude (Ref. Unacceptance of violence) | 1.155 | 0.586*** | 0.339** |
| (0.17) | (0.104) | (0.182) | |
| Education (Ref: Primary) | |||
| Lower secondary | 1.207 | 1.172 | 1.170 |
| (0.27) | (0.299) | (0.697) | |
| Upper secondary | 1.299 | 1.333 | - |
| (0.322) | (0.412) | ||
| Vocational school | 1.486 | 0.765 | - |
| (0.523) | (0.388) | ||
| College/university & above | 1.746* | 1.25 | - |
| (0.522) | (0.504) | ||
| Religion (Ref. No religion) | |||
| Buddhism | 0.690* | 0.645 | 1.143 |
| (0.139) | (0.227) | (1.039) | |
| Christianity | 1.171 | 3.051*** | 3.598 |
| (0.31) | (0.854) | (3.112) | |
| Other religions | 0.485** | 1.655 | 31.05** |
| (0.175) | (0.855) | (53.15) | |
| Region (Ref. South East) | |||
| Red River Delta | 1.272 | 2.443*** | 2.633 |
| (0.357) | (0.817) | (3.346) | |
| Northern midlands and mountain area | 1.689** | 1.378* | 3.634 |
| (0.431) | (0.465) | (5.386) | |
| North Central and central coastal area | 1.332 | 1.820* | 4.646 |
| (0.339) | (0.598) | (6.163) | |
| Central Highlands | 1.439 | 1.068 | 1.682 |
| (0.358) | (0.36) | (1.687) | |
| Mekong River Delta | 1.058 | 0.627 | - |
| (0.229) | (0.254) | - | |
| Wealth index (Ref. poorest) | |||
| Second | 1.286 | 1.545 | 0.419 |
| (0.324) | (0.465) | (0.358) | |
| Middle | 1.523 | 1.694* | 0.325 |
| (0.395) | (0.512) | (0.242) | |
| Fourth | 0.991 | 0.853 | 1.431 |
| (0.256) | (0.297) | (1.399) | |
| Richest | 1.211 | 1.354 | 1.172 |
| (0.367) | (0.538) | (1.496) | |
| Number of observations | 1,502 | 2,920 | 779 |
| Pseudo R-square | 0.300 | 0.210 | 0.389 |
Note: Certain cells are left blank as some of the control variables were drooped automatically as they predict success or failure completely or there was no observation corresponding to the variable.
Standard errors in parentheses. Significance levels: *** p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05, * p < 0.1. All models control for mass media access, urban/rural, working status, having elderly in the household, having experience of death of child, and age of youngest child.