| Percentage of Currently Married Men Age 15-49 who Think a Wife should have an Equal or Greater Say than her Husband on Five Specific Kinds of Decisions by Background Characteristics in India (2005-2006) | ||||||||
| Background Characteristic | %age of Men who Say that Wives should have an Equal or Greater Say than their Husband on Specific Decisions | No. of Men | ||||||
| Making Major House- hold Purch- ases | Making Purch- ases for Daily House- hold Needs | Visits to her Family or Relatives | What to do with the Money Wife Earns | How Many Children to have | All Five Decisions | None of Five Decisions | ||
| Age | ||||||||
| 15-19 | ||||||||
| 20-24 | ||||||||
| 25-29 | ||||||||
| 30-39 | ||||||||
| 40-49 | ||||||||
| Residence | ||||||||
| Urban | ||||||||
| Rural | ||||||||
| Education | ||||||||
| No education | ||||||||
| <5 years complete | ||||||||
| 5-7 years complete | ||||||||
| 8-9 years complete | ||||||||
| 10-11 years complete | ||||||||
| 12 or more years complete | ||||||||
| Employment (Past 12 Months) | ||||||||
| Employed | ||||||||
| Employed, for cash | ||||||||
| Employed, not for cash | ||||||||
| Not employed | ||||||||
| Number of Living Children | ||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||
| 1-2 | ||||||||
| 3-4 | ||||||||
| 5 + | ||||||||
| Household Structure1 | ||||||||
| Nuclear | ||||||||
| Non-nuclear | ||||||||
| Religion | ||||||||
| Hindu | ||||||||
| Muslim | ||||||||
| Christian | ||||||||
| Sikh | ||||||||
| Buddhist/Neo-Buddhist | ||||||||
| Jain | ||||||||
| Other | ||||||||
| Caste/Tribe | ||||||||
| Scheduled caste | ||||||||
| Scheduled tribe | ||||||||
| Other backward class | ||||||||
| Other | ||||||||
| Don`t know | ||||||||
| Wealth Index | ||||||||
| Lowest | ||||||||
| Second | ||||||||
| Middle | ||||||||
| Fourth | ||||||||
| Highest | ||||||||
| Total age 15-49 | ||||||||
| Age 50-54 | ||||||||
| Total age 15-54 | ||||||||
