Variations in Desired Family Size and Excess Fertility in East Africa

Table 3

Percentage distribution of respondents by background characteristics.

Variable	Categories	Kenya		Tanzania		Uganda		Rwanda
		%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁	%	𝑁
Woman’s education	No education	15.0	653	28.9	1742	19.3	941	19.6	1242
	Inc. primary	29.3	1278	16.5	992	46.0	2237	54.5	3458
	Comp. primary	26.5	1155	45.4	2732	11.2	545	14.7	930
	Secondary and +	29.3	1279	9.2	556	23.5	1145	11.2	707
Woman's occupation	Cultivator	26.5	1157	70.6	4253	52.9	2575	76.5	4846
	Craftswoman	4.9	215	11.4	685	—	—	4.1	259
	Works in services	30.9	1350	4.4	265	27.5	1339	9.2	584
	Others	37.6	1643	13.6	819	19.6	954	10.2	648
Woman’s religion	Catholic	19.4	848	23.3	1403	43.8	2134	42.4	2685
	Protestant	62.8	2740	23.6	1423	41.3	2012	54.2	3432
	Muslim	13.7	598	42.6	2563	13.8	671	1.6	99
	Others	4.1	179	10.5	633	1.0	51	1.9	121
Partner’s education	No education	11.2	491	19.4	1167	11.3	551	19.5	1235
	Inc. primary	18.7	818	18.9	1136	36.7	1787	50.9	3225
	Comp. primary	28.2	1233	48.7	2935	15.8	767	16.2	1028
	Secondary and +	41.8	1823	13.0	784	36.2	1080	13.4	849
Wealth index	Poorest	20.2	882	18.7	1129	23.0	1120	19.5	1237
	Poorer	16.4	715	19.4	1170	18.7	911	19.9	1264
	Middle	18.0	785	19.2	1159	17.1	831	19.7	1248
	Richer	19.4	847	23.0	1386	16.4	797	20.3	1289
	Richest	26.0	1136	19.6	1178	24.8	1209	20.5	1299
Type of residence	Urban	27.8	1213	20.2	1218	24.2	1180	14.8	937
	Rural	72.2	3152	79.8	4804	75.8	3688	85.2	5400
Partner desire for children	Same	51.0	2228	39.0	2347	28.3	1376	58.0	3675
	More	18.6	813	32.4	1948	28.6	1390	10.5	663
	Fewer	6.3	273	4.5	273	8.8	426	17.9	1136
	Don’t know	24.1	1051	24.1	1454	34.4	1676	13.6	863
No living children: mean (StD)		3.4 (2.09)		3.6 (2.26)		4.03 (2.34)		3.5 (2.0)
Total		100	4365	100	6022	100	4868	100	6337

Source: computation from the datasets.