Table 2:

Logit models predicting odds of a male birth to women who have had a 2nd birth in last 12 months and never used contraception

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Model 5
	OR	SE	OR	SE	OR	SE	OR	SE	OR	SE
Birth interval	0.998	0.001	0.997	0.001 *	0.995	0.002 **	0.995	0.002 **	0.995	0.002 **
Post partum amenorrhea
Death of first birth (within 1st year)			0.831	0.085	0.852	0.090	0.846	0.090	0.850	0.090
Mother’s education (no education=reference)
Primary			1.100	0.088	1.151	0.095	1.167	0.097	1.177	0.107
Secondaiy plus			1.015	0.101	1.036	0.108	1.048	0.110	1.095	0.126
Mother’s wealth quintile (poorest = reference)
Poorer			1.128	0.104	1.109	0.105	1.090	0.103	1.101	0.105
Middle			1.092	0.106	1.112	0.110	1.079	0.108	1.087	0.110
Richer			1.006	0.109	0.943	0.104	0.906	0.101	0.899	0.103
Richest			0.931	0.125	0.901	0.126	0.858	0.121	0.850	0.124
Mother’s religion (Muslim = reference)
Catholic			0.867	0.079	0.862	0.084	0.850	0.083	0.832	0.091
Protestant			0.995	0.108	1.006	0.117	1.000	0.117	0.959	0.136
Other Christian			0.992	0.096	1.007	0.103	0.997	0.103	0.947	0.107
Other			0.854	0.150	0.852	0.154	0.840	0.153	0.794	0.153
No religion			0.796	0.127	0.832	0.138	0.810	0.135	0.761	0.142
Urban			1.115	0.102	1.133	0.108	1.161	0.111	1.154	0.113
Time to conception
Age at second birth					1.011	0.009	1.010	0.009	1.007	0.010
Mother’s marital status (monogamous marriage = reference)
Polygamous marriage					0.951	0.082	0.942	0.082	0.954	0.084
Non marital union					0.973	0.101	0.969	0.101	1.000	0.111
Not in a union					0.817	0.115	0.813	0.115	0.821	0.119
Duration of Union					1.001	0.001	1.001	0.001	1.001	0.001
Mother’s sex preferences
Sex of first birth							0.881	0.057	0.873	0.057
Desired proportion of sons (half = reference)
None							0.987	0.071	1.002	0.074
Less than 1/2							0.748	0.053 **	0.760	0.054 **
More than 1/2							1.262	0.084 **	1.288	0.087 **
More than 3/4							3.083	0.723 **	3.027	0.714 **
Non-numeric response							0.892	0.115	0.899	0.117
Mother’s country (Nigeria = reference)
Cameroon									0.777	0.125
Benin									1.141	0.160
Ghana									1.176	0.315
Guinea									1.060	0.159
Cote d’Ivoire									0.860	0.164
Kenya									1.815	0.466 *
Madagascar									1.071	0.211
Malawi									1.011	0.181
Mali									0.875	0.128
Mozambique									1.110	0.167
Rwanda									0.987	0.241
Zimbabwe									0.880	0.376
Uganda									0.872	0.174
BurkinaFaso									0.998	0.129
Zambia									1.010	0.234
Constant	1.155	0.068	1.153	0.105	0.908	0.177	0.951	0.206	1.015	0.230

¹Niger was dropped from this analysis due to multicollinearity.

Note: OR is the odds ratio; SE is the standard error.

Source: As for Table 1.

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01.