 
<prompt> Ideal Number of Children and Young Women’s Empowerment: Multivariate Analysis | Youth empowerment coecients for ideal number of children from separate linear multivariable regressions models among women age 15-29 |  <response> Mutlivariable models show that in 5 countries, women with medium and high empowerment have significantly lower ideal numbers of children than women with low empowerment (Figure 3). Even when controlling for background characteristics, medium and highly empowered young women in Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia want fewer children than their less empowered peers. In Malawi the relationship holds true only for young women with high empowerment.  