Trends Of Early Marriages In Pakistan; Quantitative Analysis Of Pakistan Demographic And Health Survey (Pakistan Health & Demographic Survey 1990, 2006-07 & 2012-13

Sadaf Farooq; Shamas ul Deen

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dc.contributor.author	Sadaf Farooq
dc.contributor.author	Shamas ul Deen
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-27T10:00:44Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-27T10:00:44Z
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3112
dc.description.abstract	Early age marriage has certain socio-economic, demographic and health outcomes and consequences. This study examines the trend of early age marriages in Pakistan using data from Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) by carrying out uni-variate analysis of ever married women from age 15 to 49. Due to difference in cultural traditions and kinships, age at marriage is different in different regions of the world. Women with increasing birth cohort tend to marry earlieraswomen who born earlier have higher possibility of marrying in younger ages than the women in youngest cohort. With the development interventions and changing socio-economic roles of women, decreasing trend of early marriage occurrence is found	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Bahria University Islamabad Campus	en_US
dc.subject	Department Humanities and Social Sciences	en_US
dc.title	Trends Of Early Marriages In Pakistan; Quantitative Analysis Of Pakistan Demographic And Health Survey (Pakistan Health & Demographic Survey 1990, 2006-07 & 2012-13	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US