Women’s Education, Family Planning, or Both? Application of Multistate Demographic Projections in India

Table 1

Wanted fertility rate of Indian women of childbearing ages, from national family health surveys.

	2005-2006 NFHS			1992-1993 NFHS
	Wanted TFR	TFR	Ratio	Wanted TFR	TFR	Ratio
	(1)	(2)	(1)/(2)	(1)	(2)	(1)/(2)
No education	2.4	3.6	0.667	3.2	4	0.800
Primary	1.9	2.6	0.731	2.3	3	0.767
Secondary or higher	1.7	2.1	0.810	1.9	2.4	0.792
Missing	1.1	1.1	1.000	3.1	4.1	0.756
Total	1.9	2.7	0.704	2.6	3.4	0.765