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

Table 2

Estimated indices for the four principle determinants by selected background characteristics.

Background characteristics	Index of marriage ()	Index of contraception ()	Index of abortion ()	Index of postpartum infecundability ()
Residence
Urban	0.49	0.92	1.00	0.74
Rural	0.68	0.94	1.00	0.62
Education
No Education	0.75	0.95	1.00	0.60
Primary	0.68	0.94	1.00	0.64
Secondary	0.43	0.93	1.00	0.70
Higher	0.48	0.87	1.00	0.82
Wealth quintile
Poorest	0.72	0.94	1.00	0.60
Poorer	0.66	0.95	1.00	0.61
Middle	0.67	0.96	1.00	0.63
Richer	0.56	0.91	1.00	0.70
Richest	0.44	0.91	1.00	0.80

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