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 |