| Ever-Married Women`s Indicators of Sex Preference, 1998-99 | ||||||||
| Background Characteristic | Mean ideal number of | % who want more sons than daughter | % who want mor daughter than sons | % who want at least one son | % who want at least one daughter | Number of women | ||
| Sons | Daughters | Either Sex | ||||||
| Residence | ||||||||
| Urban | ||||||||
| Rural | ||||||||
| Education | ||||||||
| Illiterate | ||||||||
| Literate, < middle school complete | ||||||||
| Middle school complete | ||||||||
| High school complete and above | ||||||||
| Religion | ||||||||
| Hindu | ||||||||
| Muslim | ||||||||
| Christian | ||||||||
| Sikh | ||||||||
| Jain | ||||||||
| Buddhist/Neo-Buddhist | ||||||||
| Other | ||||||||
| No religion | ||||||||
| Caste/tribe | ||||||||
| Scheduled caste | ||||||||
| Scheduled tribe | ||||||||
| Other backward class | ||||||||
| Other | ||||||||
| Work status | ||||||||
| Working in family farm/business | ||||||||
| Employed by someone else | ||||||||
| Self-employed | ||||||||
| Not worked in past 12 months | ||||||||
| Standard of living index | ||||||||
| Low | ||||||||
| Medium | ||||||||
| High | ||||||||
| Husband`s education | ||||||||
| Illiterate | ||||||||
| Literate, < primary school complete | ||||||||
| Primary school complete | ||||||||
| Middle school complete | ||||||||
| High school complete | ||||||||
| Higher secondary complete and above | ||||||||
| Total | ||||||||
