Just 1.7% Rajasthan women want more daughters than sons, says NFHS | Jaipur News

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JAIPUR: In Rajasthan, 15.6% of women want more sons than daughters, said the latest data on women’s sex preference of children (daughter or son) collected in 2019-21 through the National Family Health Survey (NFHS).
Women’s and men’s preferences for sons and daughters are almost the same in the state. Just like 15.6% of women want more sons that daughters, 15.9% of men want more sons than daughters.
Besides, in the state, 1.7% women want more daughters than sons, which is lowest percentage of such women in north India, along with Chandigarh where 1.7% of women want more daughters than sons. In Punjab (1.9%), Haryana (2%), Delhi (2.9%) and in Himachal Pradesh 4.7% of women want more daughters than sons.
Manipur and Uttar Pradesh (23% each) have the highest proportion of women who want more sons than daughters in their ideal family size, and the lowest proportion is in Chandigarh (5%).
The proportion of currently married women who want no more children increases with age. In the country, only 25% of currently married women aged 15-24 want no more children, compared with 66% aged 25-34 years and 89% aged 35-49.
Sixty-five percent of currently married women aged 15-49 with two living daughters and no sons want no more children, compared 91% with two sons and no daughters. The pattern is similar for men, indicating that son preference is still an important factor in overall fertility preferences in the country, the NFHS-5 says.
The desire of women not to have any more children is relatively low in the northeast states except Tripura, Sikkim, and Assam, in Bihar (66%) in the east, Goa (60%) in the west, Ladakh (48%) and Jammu and Kashmir (52%) in the north, and Kerala (64%) in the south. The desire of women not to have any more children in the state is 70%.