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Table 1 Detailed description of the study sample

From: Drivers of desire for more children among childbearing women in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for fertility control

Survey Country

Survey Year

Sample (N)

Sample (%)

Angola

2015-16

5645

2.43

Benin

2017-18

8838

3.18

Burkina Faso

2010

11,842

5.09

Burundi

2016-17

9116

3.92

Cameroon

2018

6291

2.70

Chad

2014-15

10,055

4.32

Comoros

2012

2152

0.92

Congo

2011-12

6137

2.64

Congo DR

2013-14

11,479

4.93

Côte d’Ivoire

2011-12

5145

2.21

Ethiopia

2016

8598

3.69

Gabon

2012

3123

1.34

Gambia

2013

5561

2.39

Ghana

2014

4238

1.82

Guinea

2018

5905

2.39

Kenya

2014

7556

3.25

Lesotho

2014

3148

1.35

Liberia

2013

4709

2.02

Malawi

2015-16

12,353

5.31

Mali

2018

6913

2.97

Namibia

2013

2329

1.00

Niger

2012

8416

3.62

Nigeria

2018

24,342

10.46

Rwanda

2014-15

6405

2.75

Senegal

2010-11

8020

3.45

Sierra Leone

2013

8802

3.78

South Africa

2016

2310

0.99

Tanzania

2015-16

6886

2.96

Togo

2013-14

5167

2.22

Uganda

2016

9399

4.04

Zambia

2018

6512

2.80

Zimbabwe

2015

5392

2.32

Total

-

232,784

100