Fertility Limiting Intention and Contraceptive Use among Currently Married Men in Nepal: Evidence from Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2016
Table 1
Percentage distribution of currently married men aged 20 or older who had at least one living child, by selected characteristics, according to fertility intention, Nepal 2016.
Characteristics
Did not want more children (N=1551)
Wanted more children (N=428)
Age
20-29
10.9
53.4
30-39
43.9
38.4
40-49
45.3
8.2
Number and sex of living children
one or two son’s only
18.7
36.4
Two: 1son, 1 daughter
21.6
8.7
Three: 1 son, 2 daughters
11.2
2.0
Three: 2sons, 1 daughter
11.8
1.1
Four:1 son, 3 daughters
4.9
0.0
Four:2 sons,2 daughters
7.5
0.2
Four:3 sons,1 daughter
2.8
0.0
Five:2 sons,3 daughters
3.1
0.3
Five: >=3sons, at least 1 daughter
3.6
0.0
six:>=2 sons, at least 1 daughter
0.8
0.0
Three or more: sons only
3.8
0.3
Daughters only
5.0
50.4
Others
5.0
0.6
Place of residence
Urban
62.4
63.1
Rural
37.6
36.9
Province
Province 1
17.1
20.5
Province 2
20.9
17.9
Province 3
21.7
22.9
Province 4
9.0
8.6
Province 5
16.7
18.7
Province 6
5.5
3.8
Province 7
9.1
7.6
Ecological zone
Mountain
6.6
3.8
Hill
41.0
46.2
Terai
52.3
49.9
Education
Secondary or higher
56.2
73.2
Primary
27.2
19.8
None
16.6
7.0
Occupation
Professional
9.2
12.4
Clerical/sales/services
29.9
27.3
Manual, skilled/unskilled
26.4
30.4
Agriculture
34.4
29.8
Wealth Index
Poorest
17.8
12.5
Poorer
19.8
18.0
Middle
19.2
18.0
Richer
21.3
28.0
Richest
21.9
23.5
Ethnicity
Hill Brahamin/Chhettri
28.1
28.3
Terai caste
18.4
15.6
Janjatis
38.7
39.4
Dalit
11.3
10.2
Muslim and Others
3.5
6.4
Decision making on family planning
Mainly wife
19.5
20.6
Wife and husband jointly
66.4
60.8
Self
14.0
18.6
Decision makers about spouse health care
Women Herself
14.5
13.9
Both
43.3
36.6
Self
38.3
32.3
someone else/Others
4.0
17.2
Exposure to family planning messages in last few months
Radio, TV and news paper
14.0
18.5
Any two media
20.3
19.0
One media
30.7
31.5
None
34.9
31.0
Total
100.0
100.0
p<0.001, p<0.01, and p<0.05. Note: p values are based on chi-square test. Others less than one percent are not shown in the table. For caste, Number of Muslims who did not want more children is 31 and other is 3.
