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Table 2. Odds ratios of wishing to stop wanting more children among currently married men aged 20-49 years who had already at least
one living child, India, 2015-2016.

Background characteristics Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
Demographic characteristics
Age (in years)
30-39 (20-29) 2.55*** 2.47*** 2.46*** 2.46***
40-49 (20-29) 11.04*** 10.94*** 10.88*** 10.90***
Number of living children
2 (1) 8.06*** 8.51*** 9.04*** 9.04***
3 (1) 9.05*** 10.61*** 10.95*** 10.94***
4+ (1) 9.19*** 11.76*** 13.24*** 13.27***
Sex composition of living children
All daughters (all sons) 0.29*** 0.29*** 0.28*** 0.28***
# of sons = # of daughters 1.40*** 1.40*** 1.46*** 1.46***
(all sons)
# of daughters > # of sons 1.34*** 1.33*** 1.39*** 1.40***
(all sons)
# of sons > # of daughters 2.06*** 2.13*** 2.39*** 2.40***
(all sons)
Socioeconomic characteristics
Educational attainment
Primary school (no education) 1.13* 1.06 1.05
Secondary school (no education) 1.15** 1.02 0.99
High school or above (no 1.10 0.91 0.89
education)
Current occupation
Not working (manual worker) 1.08 1.09 1.09
Professional (manual worker) 0.88* 0.90 0.90
Clerical/sales/service (manual 0.99 0.96 0.95
worker)
Agriculture (manual worker) 1.14*** 1.09* 1.09*
Wealth quintile
Poorer (poorest) 1.33*** 1.38*** 1.35***
Middle (poorest) 1.59*** 1.67*** 1.60***
Richer (poorest) 1.79*** 1.89*** 1.80***
Richest (poorest) 1.91*** 1.90*** 1.82***
Current residence
Rural (urban) 1.11** 1.07 1.07
Regions
Central (North) 1.04 0.83*** 0.83***
East (North) 1.11* 0.88* 0.88*
Northeast (North) 0.44*** 0.40*** 0.40***
West (North) 1.43*** 1.10 1.10
South (North) 1.15* 0.93 0.92
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