| Percentage of Women Age 15-19 Who Have Had a Live Birth or Who are Pregnant With Their First Child and Percentage who have Begun Childbearing by Background Characteristics in India (2005-2006) | ||||
| Background Characteristic | Percentage Who | Percentage who have Begun Childbearing | Number of Women | |
| Have had a Live Birth | Are Pregnant with First Child | |||
| Age | ||||
| 15 | ||||
| 16 | ||||
| 17 | ||||
| 18 | ||||
| 19 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Marital status | ||||
| Never married | ||||
| Currently married | ||||
| Widowed/divorced/separated/deserted | ||||
| 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 | ||||
