Contraceptive Use in India: A Data Mining Approach

Table 3

Importance of characteristics of women in classifying contraceptive use.

SN	Characteristics	Absolute improvement	Relative improvement
1	Surviving children	0.076	100
2	Household income	0.014	17.8
3	Religion	0.01	12.9
4	Woman’s years of schooling	0.008	10.4
5	Husband’s years of schooling	0.004	5.8
6	Residence	0.001	1.9