Changes in Fertility Decline in Rwanda: A Decomposition Analysis

Table 4

Contribution of selected explanatory variables to the gap in actual fertility outcomes between 1992 and 2000.

	Endowments		Coefficients		Interaction
	Coef. (×100)	Sig.	Coef. (×100)	Sig.	Coef. (×100)	Sig.
Marital status
Never married	0.226	0.273	−0.114	0.867	0.004	0.867
In a union	−2.764	0.000	4.701	0.027	−0.478	0.004
Widowed	0.007	0.960	−0.255	0.281	−0.196	0.265
Separated	0.137	0.183	−0.070	0.784	−0.036	0.787
Child mortality
No death	0.031	0.522	−3.397	0.007	0.194	0.006
One or more	0.031	0.522	0.690	0.007	0.194	0.006
Living children
0−2	−0.147	0.026	−1.959	0.116	−0.136	0.130
3	0.004	0.655	0.158	0.624	−0.003	0.728
4	−0.001	0.921	0.250	0.392	−0.011	0.507
5+	−0.166	0.007	0.045	0.944	−0.005	0.944
Contraceptive use
Not using	1.002	0.000	−6.837	0.000	−0.474	0.001
Folkloric & traditional	0.023	0.321	−0.202	0.325	0.032	0.348
Modern methods	0.717	0.000	1.216	0.001	−0.530	0.001
Age
20−24	0.001	0.997	1.473	0.086	0.000	0.997
25−29	−0.021	0.868	0.923	0.126	−0.004	0.868
30−34	−0.432	0.000	0.078	0.878	−0.011	0.878
35−39	0.008	0.521	−0.347	0.366	−0.013	0.496
40−44	−0.152	0.055	−0.067	0.859	−0.005	0.860
45−49	−0.744	0.000	−0.624	0.172	−0.122	0.138
Intercept			8.616	0.002

Controlled for education and place of residence.