The Effects of Declining Fertility on Household Socioeconomic Conditions in Tanzania: A Comparative Study of Urban versus Rural Areas of Kwimba District, Mwanza Region

Table 5

Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression results for household wealth and age structure. Estimated coefficients.

Dependent variable	Youth dependency ratio; (Ngudu urban); ()	Children under 15 per household; (Ngudu urban); ()	Youth dependency ratio; (Nyamikoma rural); ()	Children under 15 per household; (Nyamikoma rural); ()
First quintile (lowest)	−0.101; (0.475)	−0.0117; (0.0261)	−0.0009; (0.143)	0.0221; (0.03422)
Second quintile	−0.114; (0.0570)	−0.0250; (0.0203)	−0.00154; (0.156)	0.0305; (0.0568)
Third quintile	−0.126; (0.0305)	−0.0684; (0.0230)	−0.205; (0.0800)	−0.0318; (0.0584)
Fourth quintile	−0.266; (0.0396)	−0.149; (0.0211)	−0.382; (0.114)	−0.171; (0.0463)
Fifth quintile (wealthiest)	−0.265; (0.0334)	−0.470; (0.0299)	−0.158; (0.0996)	−0.270; (0.0609)
-value	0.00	0.00	0.13	0.00

Robust standard errors in parentheses.
, , and .
Source: Kwimba fertility survey, 2015.