Contraceptive Use in India: A Data Mining Approach

Table 2

The classification table.

Node	Predicted category	Parent node	Primary independent variable		Number of women		Node category
			Variable	Split values	𝑁	Percent
0	No use				555665	100.0	Parent
1	Terminal	0	Surviving children	≥2	426013	76.7
2	No use	0	Surviving children	1, 0	129652	23.3
3	No use	1	Religion	Muslim	49257	8.9
4	Terminal	1	Religion	Others, Hindu	376756	67.8
5	No use	2	Surviving children	1	82477	14.8
8	No use	3	Household standard of living	High, average, very high	34464	6.2
9	Terminal	4	Household standard of living	Low, very low	136991	24.7
12	No use	5	Household standard of living	High, very high	42470	7.6
14	No use	8	Woman’s years of schooling	9–12, 1–8, >12	18144	3.3
16	Terminal	9	Religion	Hindu	124164	22.3
18	No use	12	Household standard of living	Very high	24250	4.4
6	No use	2	Surviving children	0	47175	8.5	Terminal
7	No use	3	Household standard of living	Low, very low	14793	2.7	Terminal
10	Terminal	4	Household standard of living	High, average, very high	239765	43.1	Terminal
11	No use	5	Household standard of living	Average, low, very low	40007	7.2	Terminal
13	No use	8	Woman’s years of schooling	0	16320	2.9	Terminal
15	No use	9	Religion	Others	12827	2.3	Terminal
17	No use	12	Household standard of living	High	18220	3.3	Terminal
19	No use	14	Type of locality	Rural	9251	1.7	Terminal
20	Terminal	14	Type of locality	Urban	8893	1.6	Terminal
21	Terminal	16	Household standard of living	Low	65569	11.8	Terminal
22	No use	16	Household standard of living	Lowest	58595	10.5	Terminal
23	No use	18	Woman’s years of schooling	0, 9–12, 1–8	16670	3.0	Terminal
24	Spacing	18	Woman’s years of schooling	>12	7580	1.4	Terminal