Fertility desires in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: an application of logit model.

"The relationship between fertility desires and some explanatory variables, number of living children, level of education, and age of women are studied by fitting a series of logit models for two developing countries, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The model which includes the main effects of all the explanatory variables to predict the fertility desires of women is found to be the most appropriate model for Sri Lanka whereas the best fitting model for predicting fertility desires among Bangladeshi women includes the interaction of age and number of living children as well as the interaction of number of living children and education in addition to the main effects of all the explanatory variables. The single best predictor of future childbearing desires of women is found to be the number of living children, while the weakest predictor is the level of education."