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Table 7.3 Fertility preferences by age
Percent distribution of currently married women by desire for more children, according to age, Ethiopia 2000
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Current age
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Desire for children 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 Total
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WOMEN
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Have another soon 1
Have another later 2
Have another/undecided when
Undecided
Want no more
Sterilized 3
Declared infecund 4
Missing
28.5 23.8 22.3 22.6 23.8 20.7 13.5 NA NA 22.3
56.6 56.5 48.8 37.7 22.2 10.5 3.2 NA NA 36.4
2.8 4.5 2.9 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.4 NA NA 2.9
2.7 3.1 4.1 2.4 3.2 5.3 3.3 NA NA 3.4
9.0 12.2 21.5 34.3 45.8 55.0 58.6 NA NA 31.7
0.0 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.5 1.1 0.4 NA NA 0.3
0.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 2.1 5.3 18.7 NA NA 2.8
0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 NA NA 0.0
Total
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 NA NA 100.0
Number
862 1,807 2,051 1,572 1,441 1,096 961 NA NA 9,789
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MEN
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Have another soon 1
Have another later 2
Have another/undecided when
Undecided
Want no more
Sterilized 3
Declared infecund 4
* 45.6 26.5 24.9 20.4 23.1 25.9 26.6 22.2 25.2
* 52.3 64.7 59.2 52.6 38.3 25.1 21.8 9.8 43.1
* 0.4 0.9 3.3 3.5 3.4 4.9 6.4 3.0 3.4
* 0.7 1.0 1.1 2.7 3.1 3.8 1.2 0.0 1.9
* 1.1 6.9 9.6 20.7 30.6 39.9 38.8 56.3 24.6
* 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5 0.0 0.1
* 0.0 0.0 1.7 0.1 1.6 0.4 3.7 8.8 1.7
Total
* 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Number
7 76 222 228 284 171 192 139 142 1,460
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Note: An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has been suppressed.
NA = Not applicable
1 Wants next birth within two years
2 Wants to delay next birth for two or more years
3 Includes both male and female sterilization
4 For women this refers to women's reporting themselves as being infecund. For men, this refers to men reporting they and/or their
partners are infecund.
Table 7.4 portrays the percentage of currently married women and men who want no more
children by number of living children and background characteristics. A higher percentage of women
in urban areas prefer not to have any more children than those in rural areas, and the difference is
slightly more pronounced among women than among men. The proportion of respondents in Addis
Ababa who desire no more children (49 percent of women and 56 percent of men) is higher than in all
other regions. The desire to limit childbearing is the lowest in the Somali Region for both female and
male respondents. As expected, the desire to limit childbearing is the highest among women and men
who attended at least some secondary education, and the lowest among respondents who attended only
primary education.
88 * Fertility Preference