Determinants of Age at First Marriage of Rural Women in Bangladesh: A Cohort Analysis

Zahangir, Mohammad Salim; Karim, Md. Abdul; Zaman, M; M, Hussain; ., M.S. Hossain

doi:10.3923/tasr.2008.335.343

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“…Some specific factors such as access to mass media, parent's views about gender perspective, also played significant role on female age marriage. Female who had no access to any media marriage significantly at lower age (Zahangir et al, 2008). Other factors such as; sex before marriage (Isiugo-Abanihe et al, 1993), food security and father education, father's survival status also significantly impacted on female's age marriage.…”

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Systematic Review on Factors Associated with Female Age at Marriage

Shrestha,

Khanal

2023

Nep. J. Stats.

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Background: Female age at marriage is one of the major indicators of population dynamics associated with age at which marriable couples are united and simultaneously acts of giving new childbirth with new family roles. Occurrence of marriage before the body being physically fit and mentally matured results in many adverse consequences. However, less attentions have been given to the variability of female age at marriage which can be influenced by different factors. Objective: This review paper is an attempt to explore significant factors associated with female age at marriage, and to mark those factors as explained by model-based statistical effect size. Materials and Methods: Following the PRISMA- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guideline, three databases EMBASE, PubMed and Scopus were used to identify relevant articles combining key search terms using Boolean operations. From these databases, a total of 605 eligible articles originally published in English language till the date of 20 November, 2023 were identified. Applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria only 17 papers which had used statistical models were ascertained for final review. Results: The effect size which was found significant at 0.05 level of significance explored that female’s education, place of residence, religion, caste/ethnicity, birth cohort, current age, female’s work status, type of occupation, wealth index, husband’s education are the major determinants, which are observed to be significantly associated with female age at marriage. Conclusion: Female age at marriage is found to be varied from place to place, region to region and country to country. As the level of education increased, the possibility of acquiring early age at marriage has been reduced significantly. The demographic, socio-economic, gender and community factors played significant roles at the timing of females age at marriages. Moreover, female age at marriage has a considerable impact on fertility measures and population structure. Hence, policy relating to improving female age at marriage and its associated effective enforcement of law are required to meet the SDGs targets.

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“…Six studies conducted in this region (Aryal, 2007;Caltabiano & Castiglioni, 2008;Islam & Mahmud, 1996b;Kamal, 2011;Singh et al, 2023;Zahangir et al, 2008)…”

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Systematic Review on Factors Associated with Female Age at Marriage

Shrestha,

Khanal

2023

Nep. J. Stats.

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An Assessment of Influencing Factors for Motherhood During Childhood in Bangladesh Using Factor Analysis and Logistic Regression Methods

Zahangir

Nahar

2020

Statistics for Data Science and Policy Analysis

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Family socio-cultural values affecting early marriage between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh

Uddin

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Purpose – Family socio-cultural values and its practices have pervasive effects on early age at first marriage in every society. The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare how family socio-cultural values and its practices exert effect on early age at first marriage between Muslim and Santal couples in rural Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – First of all through snow-ball process and checking of marriage documents the author carefully identified 598 couples from Muslim and 560 from Santal who were married the first time between 1995 and 2005 years and whose age range was 12-48 years for husbands and 10-45 years for wives. Then, 585 pairs of couples (295 for Muslim and 290 for Santal) were randomly selected from the Talonda of Rajshahi district, Bangladesh. Data were collected, applying interview method with semi-structural questionnaire in family setting. Then the collected data were analyzed, using χ2 test and binary logistic regression (BLR) technique. Findings – The frequency distribution showed that most of the Santal couples compared to the Muslim ones were married before the minimum legal age in Bangladesh. The results of χ2 test of the frequency distribution were significant at p<0.01 and p<0.05 level. In addition, results of BLR analysis suggested that early age at first marriage was significantly (p<0.01 and p<0.05) associated with family socio-cultural values studied. It is argued that ethnicity, family pattern, residence pattern, illiteracy and ascriptive occupational status were the risk factors to persist early marriage among the Santal couples than the Muslim ones in rural Bangladesh. Practical implications – Although the findings are suggestive to understand differences in early marriage associated with family socio-cultural values between the ethnic couples, further cross-cultural study should be conducted on how socio-psychological factors affect early marriage between the ethnic groups. In spite of the limitations these findings may have implications in comparative social policy practice to prevent early marriage associated with changes in family socio-cultural values between the ethnic groups in Bangladesh. Originality/value – The findings in the paper are original in linking between family socio-cultural theory, its related policy and practice to prevent early marriage between the ethnic couples in Bangladesh.

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Determinants of Age at First Marriage of Rural Women in Bangladesh: A Cohort Analysis

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Systematic Review on Factors Associated with Female Age at Marriage

Systematic Review on Factors Associated with Female Age at Marriage

An Assessment of Influencing Factors for Motherhood During Childhood in Bangladesh Using Factor Analysis and Logistic Regression Methods

Family socio-cultural values affecting early marriage between Muslim and Santal communities in rural Bangladesh

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