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