Fertility Behaviour and Effect of Son Preference among the Muslims of Manipur, India

Table 3

Association of education, occupation, PCAI, family type, BCM, and type of marriage with fertility.

	Women (%)	Mean conception	Mean live birth	value for -test
Education
Illiterate	44.53	4.77	3.99	0.00081
Literate	55.47	3.30	2.73
Occupation
Housewife	90.23	4.01	3.32	0.27
Working	9.77	3.44	2.98
PCAI (Rs)
<10000	23.83	4.97	4.43
10000–19999	49.02	3.98	3.23
20000–29999	19.73	3.15	2.56
30000–39999	6.25	2.78	2.06
40000+	1.17	2.00	1.33
Family type
Nuclear	71.29	4.39	3.68	0.0001
Joint/extended	29.71	2.86	2.32
BCM
User	20.12	4.54	3.52	0.094
Nonuser	79.88	3.80	3.23
Type of marriage
Nonconsanguineous	94.14	4.00	3.34	0.033
Consanguineous	5.86	3.17	2.50

PCAI: Per capita annual income; BCM: birth control measures.