Variations in Desired Family Size and Excess Fertility in East Africa

Table 6

Parity (mean number of children) at which excess fertility starts to be dominant (>50%) within women for highest and lowest socioeconomic classes by religion.

Country	Religion
	Catholic		Protestant		Muslim
	Highest category	Lowest category	Highest category	Lowest category	Highest category	Lowest category
Kenya	5	8	5	8	6	UF*
Tanzania	5	8	5	9	7	UF*
Uganda	6	9	6	8	7	9
Rwanda	4	5	5	5	5	5

∗Uncontrolled fertility, meaning that at no parity is the majority of the women in excess fertility.
Source: computation from the results of the model in Table 4.