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Table 1. Percentage distribution of currently married men aged 20-49 years who had at least one living child, by selected characteristics
according to fertility intention, India, 2015-2016.

Background characteristics N Wanting more children (N=11,248) Not wanting more Child (N=36,918) P‑value
Total 48,166 21.6 78.4
Demographic characteristics
Age (years)
20-29 9,160 54.0 46.0
30-39 20,632 22.3 77.7 0.000
40-49 18,374 5.0 95.0
Number of living children
1 10,795 63.9 36.1
2 17,753 11.2 88.8 0.000
3 10,555 6.3 93.7
4+ 9,063 4.9 95.1
Sex composition of living children
All daughters 8,384 53.5 46.5
All sons 13,018 31.2 68.8
# of sons = # of daughters 12,286 7.0 93.0 0.000
# of daughters > # of sons 7,529 5.2 94.8
# of sons > # of daughters 6,949 2.8 97.2
Socioeconomic characteristics
Educational attainment
No Education 8,205 16.3 83.7
Primary school 7,688 18.3 81.7
Secondary school 26,022 22.3 77.7 0.000
High school or above 6,251 28.7 71.3
Current occupation
Not working 2,779 23.3 76.8
Professional 3,208 26.9 73.1
Clerical/sales/service 9,852 22.7 77.3 0.000
Agriculture 17,733 18.3 81.7
Manual workers 14,520 23.0 77.0
Wealth quintile
Poorest 8,858 22.6 77.4
Poorer 10,193 21.1 78.9
Middle 10,162 20.8 79.2 0.032
Richer 9,520 20.8 79.2
Richest 9,433 22.8 77.2
Current residence
Urban 14,335 22.3 77.7
Rural 33,831 21.2 78.8 0.073
Regions
North 10,662 20.4 79.6
Central 12,426 22.2 77.8
East 7,978 22.7 77.3 0.000
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