The Socio-Economic Effect of Early Marriage in North Western Nigeria

Kyari, Gimba Victor

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n14p582

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“…A number of key factors associated with school attrition. Many analysis demonstrates that the age of the girls student, marital status, mother aliveness, father aliveness, place of residence, division, wealth index of household, religion and household education have statistically significant associations with girls school attrition [3,[24][25][26][27][28], and this association was found in this current study.…”

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Factors Associated with Attrition of Girls Students from School in Bangladesh

Hasan

2020

J. Sci. Res.

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Many girls who enrolled in a school but didn’t complete elementary or secondary education, have become a serious problem in the last few decades in Bangladesh. Several studies have been conducted to identify the determinants of school dropout by constructing bivariate and multiple logistic regression (MLR) model. Bangladesh multiple indicator cluster surveys (MICS) 2012 data were selected in this investigation. This study was based on girls aged between 15 and 17 years since all these girls should have been in school or have completed primary education. The backward stepwise method was used for model selection and fitting to the dataset. From 4800 girls, 29.1% were out of school and 70.9% were attending school. Backward stepwise method confirmed that girl’s marital status, area, division, wealth index, religion, mothers and father’s aliveness and household education were the major reasons of girl’s dropout and these covariates are only considered in the analysis. The MLR analysis showed that married girls were significantly (OR 11.06; 95% CI 9.05–13.56) more likely to attrition compared to unmarried girls. School-based programs aimed at preventing child marriage should target girls from the fifth grade because of their escalated risk, and they need to prioritize girls from disadvantaged groups.

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Factors Associated with Attrition of Girls Students from School in Bangladesh

Hasan

2020

J. Sci. Res.

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“…Opposition to enactment of a minimum age at first marriage has remained stiff in northern Nigeria where early and sometimes forced marriages are more prevalent. As found in Kyari and Ayodele (2014), the prevalence of early marriage in northern Nigeria has serious socio-economic implications. Early marriage in the region denied many girls the opportunities of acquiring basic education and developing their talents.…”

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“…Marriage age which also refers to age at first marriage (Dommaraju, 2008) is an important proximate determinant of fertility (Bongaarts, 1978) and indeed has not only been linked with demographic change in many parts of Europe and North America where fertility has stabilized at low levels, but has also been identified as one of the causes of high fertility level in developing countries of Africa and Asia where the practice of early marriage remain widespread (Clifton & Frost, 2011;Garenne, 2004;Guilbert, 2013;Haloi, 2014;Head, Zweimueller, Marchena, & Hoel, 2014;Kyari & Ayodele, 2014). Though childbearing outside marital unions is prevalent worldwide, the greatest proportions of childbearing occur within marital unions (Acharya, 2010).…”

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Marriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria

Solanke

2015

Sage Open

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This study examines the relationship between age at first marriage and women's fertility behavior and empowerment. Data were extracted from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. The Poisson regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied using Stata version 12. Results show that the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 15 to 19 years is less than the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 14 years or less (incident rate ratios = 0.8177, p < .01), and that the relative risk of being in high empowerment category instead of moderate category will increase by a factor of 2.0988 for those aged 15 to 19 years at first marriage compared with those aged 14 years or less. Age at first marriage is significantly related to women's fertility behavior and empowerment.

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“…She may end up facing the consequences of school drop-out and poverty. [17,18,19] This shows that early marriage has a negative impact on a girl's education, either cutting short her education by making her to drop out of school or interrupting the course of her education due to responsibilities like child birth and child rearing. It burdens them with so many responsibilities even in their early age.…”

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