Demographic

Table 7.2.1 Desire to limit childbearing: WomenPercentage of currently married women age 15-49 who wantno more children, by number of living children, according tobackground characteristics, Swaziland 2006Number of livingBackgroundchildren 1characteristic 0-2 3-4 5+ TotalResidenceUrban 51.1 88.8 88.0 67.8Rural 40.9 78.6 93.0 68.4RegionHhohho 44.6 78.4 92.9 65.5Manzini 49.4 86.2 91.5 71.4Shiselweni 41.3 80.3 91.4 69.8Lubombo 38.3 79.6 94.2 66.0Highest educational levelNo education 36.3 73.8 90.5 69.5Lower primary 39.9 (64.8) 87.7 68.4Higher primary 43.9 80.9 93.9 70.7Secondary 44.1 79.3 93.5 66.7High school 48.2 91.4 100.0 (67.6)Tertiary 46.9 93.5 88.4 *Wealth quintileLowest 46.5 63.6 88.7 66.7Second 36.2 79.8 92.2 70.3Middle 48.8 85.8 97.7 76.0Fourth 43.5 81.3 91.6 65.1Highest 44.9 88.9 92.5 64.7Total 15-49 44.3 81.6 92.4 68.2Note: Women who have been sterilized are considered to wantno more children. Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that an estimate isbased on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has beensuppressed.1The number of living children includes the current pregnancy.Table 7.2.2 Desire to limit childbearing: MenPercentage of currently married men age 15-49 who want nomore children, by number of living children, according tobackground characteristics, Swaziland 2006Number of livingBackgroundchildren 1characteristic 0-2 3-4 5+ TotalResidenceUrban 32.1 70.6 82.4 55.3Rural 26.6 52.9 75.7 50.0RegionHhohho 29.4 58.8 79.0 53.7Manzini 33.4 64.2 78.6 51.6Shiselweni 21.6 60.5 75.1 50.6Lubombo 25.2 58.2 77.3 51.7Highest educational levelNo education (16.4) 48.8 68.8 47.4Lower primary 20.5 (50.0) 81.3 47.6Higher primary 33.4 54.2 75.1 54.3Secondary 20.6 60.7 75.8 50.9High school 29.1 67.9 (92.6) 50.2Tertiary 43.9 70.2 (83.7) 60.1Wealth quintileLowest 20.4 (37.7) 67.3 42.1Second 31.8 (39.7) 74.6 49.0Middle 29.5 64.6 81.5 57.7Fourth 30.0 59.0 73.2 48.4Highest 29.8 72.6 85.2 56.8Total 15-49 29.0 60.2 77.9 52.1Note: Men who have been sterilized or who state in response tothe question about desire for children that their wife has beensterilized are considered to want no more children. Figures inparentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases.1The number of living children includes one additional child ifrespondent's wife is pregnant (or if any wife is pregnant for menwith more than one current wife).Considering male preferences, men who reside in urban areas are slightly more likely thanrural men to desire limiting childbearing. The largest urban-rural differential in the desire to limitchildbearing is found among men with 3-4 children; 71 percent of urban men children want no morechildren compared with 53 percent of rural men. Although not uniform, the desire to limitchildbearing among men tends to increase according to level of education and wealth.Finally, the results in Tables 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 show that the desire to limit childbearing ishigher for women than for men irrespective of both socio-economic characteristics and the number ofliving children. The differentials are especially large among women and men with no education and inthe lowest wealth quintiles. For example, among those with no education, 47 percent of men do notwant any more children compared with 70 percent of women. Similarly, 42 percent of men and 67percent of women in the lowest wealth quintile want to limit childbearing.7.3 NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING SERVICESSDHS results can be used to assess the extent of need for family planning services. For thispurpose, women who want to postpone their next birth for two or more years or who want to stopchildbearing altogether but are not using a contraceptive method are said to have an unmet need forfamily planning. Pregnant women are considered to have an unmet need for spacing or limiting iftheir pregnancy was mistimed or unwanted. Similarly, amenorrhoeic women are categorised as havingunmet need if their last birth was mistimed or unwanted. Women who are currently using aFertility Preferences | 99