International Journal of Population Research

Research Article

Impact of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Tribal Society in Assam, India

Table 4

Impact of years of education on the use of contraceptives (logistic regression results).
Dependent variableIndependent variables
Contraceptive use (1 = users of contraceptives;   0 = nonusers of contraceptives)Years of education of the wife1.243
Years of education of the husbands1.073
Cox and Snell’s = 0.29; Nagelkerke’s = 0.39.
Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit test statistic = 8.507 .
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