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

Table 2

Mean live births ever born (LBEB) by selected independent variables.

Variables	Number of observations	Mean LBEB	Std. deviation	-value
Female age at marriage (in years)
Up to 18	428 (48.64)	3.26	1.62	15.29 ()
19 to 21	291 (33.07)	2.81	1.38
22 to 24	125 (14.20)	2.46	1.41
25 and above	36 (4.09)	2.11	1.21
Duration of breast-feeding
Up to 18 months	295 (33.52)	3.67	2.06	63.39 ()
19 to 24 months	273 (31.02)	2.85	1.11
25 and above months	312 (35.45)	2.37	0.86
Contraceptive use
Users	369 (41.93)	2.04	0.86	()
Nonusers	511 (58.07)	3.61	1.58
Education of the wives
No education	305 (34.66)	3.37	1.22	23.54 ()
Up to 5 years	175 (19.89)	3.27	2.22
6–10 years	278 (31.59)	2.53	1.24
More than 10 years	122 (13.86)	2.43	1.24
Education of the husbands
No education	277 (31.48)	3.62	1.37	29.09 ()
Up to 5 years	40 (4.55)	3.05	2.31
6–10 years	276 (31.36)	2.66	1.43
More than 10 years	287 (32.61)	2.57	1.44
Education of the parents
Wife is more educated	77 (8.75)	2.42	1.45	31.10 ()
Husband is equally or more educated	577 (65.57)	2.76	1.59
Both illiterate	226 (25.68)	3.60	1.20

Total number of observations: 880.
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Figures within brackets represent percentage in total.