Changes in Fertility Decline in Rwanda: A Decomposition Analysis

Table 6

Contribution of selected explanatory variables to the difference in actual fertility outcomes between 2000 and 2010.

	Endowments		Coefficients		Interaction
	Coef. (×100)	Sig.	Coef. (×100)	Sig.	Coef. (×100)	Sig.
Marital status
Never married	−2.552	0.000	0.635	0.275	0.353	0.255
In a union	0.350	0.147	−6.532	0.006	−0.112	0.161
Widowed	0.119	0.074	0.223	0.600	−0.075	0.588
Separated	−0.112	0.147	0.515	0.156	−0.227	0.153
Child mortality
No death	−0.478	0.000	2.907	0.015	0.539	0.012
One or more	−0.478	0.000	−0.884	0.015	0.539	0.012
Living children
0–2	−0.136	0.007	6.500	0.001	0.273	0.009
3	−0.001	0.762	−0.114	0.679	−0.003	0.737
4	0.007	0.488	−0.649	0.023	−0.024	0.440
5+	−0.134	0.004	−0.869	0.113	0.126	0.110
Contraception use
Not using	−1.821	0.000	7.856	0.002	−2.187	0.000
Folkloric & traditional	0.037	0.048	0.226	0.163	−0.042	0.184
Modern method	−0.903	0.045	−0.573	0.001	−3.411	0.000
Age
20–24	0.152	0.328	−0.464	0.532	−0.012	0.592
25–29	0.536	0.000	−0.272	0.608	−0.036	0.599
30–34	0.077	0.226	0.112	0.759	0.005	0.770
35–39	0.011	0.658	0.672	0.067	−0.086	0.117
40–44	0.309	0.000	0.560	0.157	−0.105	0.179
45–49	−0.171	0.373	−0.598	0.204	−0.025	0.484
Intercept			−13.457	0.000

Controlled for education and place of residence.