Table 2 Summary statistics of explanatory variables
From: Women’s empowerment and fertility preferences in high fertility countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Variables | Burkina Faso | Mali | Niger | Chad |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Social and demographic | ||||
Place of residence (%) | ||||
Rural | 79.1 | 75.8 | 76.0 | 78.6 |
Urban | 28.9 | 24.1 | 23.9 | 21.3 |
Husband education (%) | ||||
None | 88.1 | 82.5 | 86.1 | 75.4 |
Primary | 8.1 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 13.9 |
Secondary | 3.3 | 8.4 | 4.1 | 9.1 |
Tertiary (High school) | 0.5 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
Household size (%) | ||||
1–3 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 6.1 |
4–6 | 26.4 | 29.0 | 26.3 | 26.5 |
7–9 | 32.1 | 39.0 | 35.5 | 38.4 |
10 – | 37.3 | 28.5 | 34.1 | 29.0 |
No. of living children (%) | ||||
0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
1–2 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
3–4 | 21.0 | 20.7 | 16.7 | 12.8 |
>=5 | 75.8 | 75.3 | 80.6 | 85.00 |
Religion (%) | ||||
None | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
Muslim | 58.0 | 93.0 | 99.1 | 66.8 |
Christian | 28.5 | 4.1 | 0.5 | 30.2 |
Animist | 12.2 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
Women | ||||
Mean ideal number of children v613 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 10.2 | 9.5 |
Ideal no. of children (%) | ||||
0–2 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
3–5 | 27.3 | 25.0 | 7.2 | 8.9 |
>= 6 | 71.8 | 72.8 | 92.1 | 90.3 |
Had more Children than ideal (%) | 38.7 | 42.3 | 13.4 | 16.4 |
Husbands | ||||
Husband ideal number of children | 6.6 | 8.1 | 11.1 | 12.7 |
Ideal no. of children (%) | ||||
0–2 | 4.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 1.4 |
3–5 | 47.6 | 24.8 | 15.9 | 16.1 |
>= 6 | 48.5 | 73.8 | 83.5 | 82.5 |
Ideal no. of children relative to wife’s (%) | ||||
Agrees | 28.1 | 19.3 | 9.1 | 13.3 |
Higher | 55.1 | 34.8 | 44.2 | 34.1 |
Lower | 3.2 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 2.5 |
Number of women | 4020 | 1307 | 1160 | 837 |