TABLES: Kinship Networks and Contraceptive Choice In Nang Rong, Thailand

	International Family Planning Perspectives Volume 27, Number 1 March 2001
	Kinship Networks and Contraceptive Choice In Nang Rong, Thailand TABLES

Table 1. Mean number (and standard deviation) and minimum and maximum values of household kinship ties and village-level average kinship ties, Nang Rong, Thailand, 1994
Kinship ties	Mean	Minimum	Maximum
Household†
Total no.of siblings	10.09 (3.98)	0	26
Within household	2.43 (1.10)	0	9
Outside household
Within village	2.03 (2.32)	0	15
Other villages in Nang Rong	1.82 (2.33)	0	14
Other districts in Buriram	0.89 (1.59)	0	11
Other provinces in Thailand	2.93 (2.56)	0	15
Village-level average†
Total no. of siblings	5.15 (1.00)	2.89	7.00
Within household	1.35 (0.28)	0.69	1.99
Outside household
Within village	1.03 (0.47)	0.24	2.04
Other villages in Nang Rong	0.81 (0.30)	0.25	1.54
Other districts in Buriram	0.46 (0.20)	0.19	1.06
Other provinces in Thailand	1.49 (0.37)	0.79	2.41
†Study sample consists of nonsterilized, nonpregnant, recently married women aged 18-35 (N=1,563). ‡All households in all sample villages (7,336 households in 51 villages).

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Table 2. Percentage of women predicted to use a temporary contraceptive method, by method, according to number of household kinship ties
Number of ties	Pill	IUD	Injectable	None
0	25.0	2.4	30.1	42.5
4	27.3	2.7	33.1	36.9
8	29.6	2.9	35.9	31.6
12	31.7	3.1	38.5	26.7
16	33.6	3.3	40.7	22.4

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Table 3. Percentage of women predicted to use a temporary contraceptive method, by method, according to number of household kinship ties within the village and outside the village
Number of ties	Pill	IUD	Injectable	None
Within village
0	30.1	2.5	34.8	32.6
1	30.5	2.7	36.0	30.8
3	31.0	3.2	38.3	27.5
5	31.4	3.6	40.5	24.5
Outside village
2	27.5	3.2	35.9	33.4
4	29.2	3.1	36.7	31.0
6	30.9	3.0	37.3	28.8
8	32.7	2.9	37.9	26.5

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Table 4. Percentage of women predicted to use a temporary contraceptive method, by method, according to village-level average of household kinship ties outside the village
Number of ties	Pill	IUD	Injectable	None
1	23.1	7.5	26.0	43.4
2	27.5	4.7	32.3	35.5
3	31.3	2.8	38.1	27.8

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Table 5. Coefficients from multinomial logistic regression analyses of sibling ties and temporary method choice, without and with the effects of television exposure (N=1,563)
Characteristic	Pill vs. nonuse	IUD vs. nonuse	Injectable vs. nonuse	Pill vs. IUD	Pill vs. njectable	Injectable vs. IUD
WITHOUT TELEVISION
Individual level
Age	0.302	0.927*	0.271	-0.625	0.032	-0.657
Age squared	-0.006	-0.016*	-0.006	0.010	-0.001	0.010
Education	-0.041	0.021	-0.064*	-0.062	0.023	-0.086
Village level
Distance to health center (1993)	-0.00008*	0.0001	-0.00006*	-0.0002*	-0.00001	-0.0002*
No. of households	0.003	0.0005	0.002	-0.003	0.001	0.002
Household kinship ties
No. of siblings in household	-0.013	0.097	0.063	-0.110	-0.075	-0.035
No. of siblings in village	0.064	0.109	0.084*	-0.045	-0.021	-0.025
No. of siblings outside village	0.059*	0.024	0.039	0.035	0.020	0.014
Village-level kinship ties
Average no. of siblings within village	-0.142	0.751	-0.131	-0.893	-0.011	-0.882
Average no. of siblings outside village	0.387*	-0.275	0.424*	0.661	-0.037	0.699*
Constant	-4.914*	-17.017*	-4.267	12.103*	-0.646	12.750*
F (30, 21)	2.24
Prob. >F	.0293
WITH TELEVISION
Individual level
Age	0.305	0.969*	0.274	-0.664	0.030	-0.695
Age squared	-0.006	-0.016*	-0.006	0.010	-0.001	0.010
Education	-0.040	0.033	-0.062	-0.072	0.022	-0.095
Village level
Distance to health center (1993)	-0.00007*	0.0001	-0.00006*	-0.0002*	-0.00002	-0.0002*
No. of households	0.003	0.001	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.001
% of households with television	-0.699	-7.061*	-1.353	6.362*	0.655	5.707*
Household kinship ties
No. of siblings in household	-0.014	0.068	0.059	-0.082	-0.073	-0.009
No. of siblings in village	0.063	0.100	0.083*	-0.034	-0.020	-0.014
No. of siblings outside village	0.058*	0.013	0.037	0.045	0.021	0.024
Village-level kinship ties
Average no. of siblings within village	-0.191	0.314	-0.232	-0.505	0.041	-0.546
Average no. of siblings outside village	0.394*	-0.217	0.439*	0.611	-0.045	0.657*
Constant	-4.431	-12.647*	-3.338	8.216	-1.093	9.309
F (33, 18)	2.98
Prob. > F	.0084
p=.05, two-tailed test. Notes:* Coefficient estimates are reported. Analysis includes a correction for clustering at the village level.

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