Table 2

Age at marriage and its associations with reproductive healthcare utilisation and fertility control among married 20–24-year-old women in India (N=14 682)

	Reproductive healthcare			Fertility control
	No antenatal care¹ ^*	No spacing contraceptive use	Female sterilisation	Rapid repeat childbirth¹ ^†	Multiple unwanted pregnancies
	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95%CI)
Age at marriage:
20–24 years	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
18–19 years	1.7 (1.4 to 2.2)	0.89 (0.8 to 1.0)	5.4 (3.79 to 7.69)	2.2 (1.9 to 2.7)	1.8 (1.2 to 2.8)
16–17 years	2.6 (2.1 to 3.2)	1.03 (0.9 to 1.2)	12.8 (9.1 to 18.0)	3.4 (2.9 to 4.1)	2.4 (1.6 to 3.7)
14–15 years	3.9 (3.1 to 4.9)	1.25 (1.1 to 1.4)	22.4 (15.9 to 31.5)	5.1 (4.2 to 6.1)	2.9 (1.9 to 4.5)
<14 years	4.6 (3.6 to 6.0)	1.52 (1.3 to 1.8)	33.2 (23.3 to 47.4)	6.2 (5.1 to 7.6)	2.6 (1.6 to 4.3)

↵* No antenatal care is indicative of no care for at least one reported pregnancy.
↵† Rapid repeat childbirth is birth to children with less than 2 years' spacing between them.
↵1 analysis restricted to subsample of ever married women 20–24 years who have given birth (n=11 635).