Fertility Decline in Rwanda: Is Gender Preference in the Way?

Table 2

The percentage of women with three or more living children who want to have another child.

Variable name	Year
	2000		2005		2010
	Yes %	Total#	Yes %	Total#	Yes %	Total#
Gender balance and mortality
Mixed offspring: no mortality (Ref)	34.7	1479	29.7	1705	16.3	2312
Mixed offspring: lost either sex	23.2	1850	19.7	2006	9.7	1933
Sons only: no loss of daughter(s)	53.6	151	38.7	181	26.0	242
Daughters only: no loss of son(s)	58.1	129	42.7	157	34.1	205
Sons only: lost daughter(s)	36.7	60	34.9	86	23.8	84
Daughters only: lost son(s)	38.2	76	35.7	84	20.9	91
Marital status
Married or living together	40.3	2676	31.9	3284	17.8	3954
Widowed/divorced/separated	6.6	1069	5.6	935	3.3	913
Media exposure
No exposure (Ref)	30.3	3009	25.5	3265	15.0	3183
Radio and newsletter	34.5	357	30.5	609	14.2	402
TV	30.3	379	23.5	345	15.8	1282
Housing and hygienic conditions
Destitute	28.9	1414	24.0	1414	15.3	1180
Poor	32.1	1494	27.3	1942	15.2	2426
Nonpoor	31.1	837	26.3	863	14.8	1261
Education
None	25.3	1613	20.8	1493	10.5	1248
Primary	35.2	1772	29.3	2354	17.1	3151
Secondary and higher	32.8	360	26.1	372	13.9	468
Respondent’s occupation
No occupation	29.4	520	27.3	718	17.3	446
Agriculture	31.5	2894	26.4	3102	14.6	3863
Blue collar jobs (unskilled)	25.8	217	23.1	273	17.1	462
White collar jobs (managers; clerks …)	23.7	114	16.7	126	14.6	96
Residence
Urban (Ref)	25.9	691	22.0	829	14.1	623
Rural	31.8	3054	27.0	3390	15.2	4244
Mothers’ religion
Catholics (Ref)	NA	NA	24.7	1951	12.1	2151
Protestants	NA	NA	27.7	1504	18.8	1860
Adventists	NA	NA	27.1	564	15.8	676
Muslims	NA	NA	17.7	96	5.6	72
No Religion	NA	NA	26.7	75	14.0	100
Total		3745		4219		4867

Sources: RDHS 2000 [11], RDHS 2005 [12], and RDHS 2010 [10].