Proximate Determinants of Fertility in Zambia: Analysis of the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey

Table 1

Estimated proximate determinants indices and their impact on fertility reduction for Zambia, 2007.

Proximate determinants indices	Estimates values	Impact on fertility reduction
Index of marriage ()	0.60	40.30%
Index of contraception ()	0.92	2.90%
Index of abortion ()	1.00	0.00%
Index of postpartum infecundability ()	0.63	21.80%
Index of sterility ()	0.94	2.20%

Index of abortion could not be estimated and was assumed as 1.00 due to unavailability of data on abortion.