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- Title
Factors Affecting Marital Instability and Its Impact on Fertility in Bangladesh.
- Authors
Uddin, M. Sheikh Giash; Hosain, Md. Mozaffar
- Abstract
Marriage is an important determinant of fertility pattern of a country. The population with lower age at first marriage of a country will experience early child bearing and will yield high fertility. The main objective of this paper is to assess the effect of socio-economic characteristics on marital instability as well as the fertility of women who have experienced marital disruption and those who are in marital union. Data from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) 2007 were used for this paper. A multi-stage cluster sampling technique was adopted for this survey. In this paper both descriptive measures and cross-tabulation were used. The multivariate regression analysis was performed using logistic model, where marital dissolution is considered as the dependent variable. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that women with secondary education were less likely to have marital dissolution compared to those with no education. The working women had higher risk of marital instability than non working women. Mean number of children ever born of currently married women had 2.8, against widowed, divorced or separated women had 3.7 and 1.6 respectively. The adjusted mean number of children was 2.8 for women who were married once and it was 2.3 for women who married more than once. The analysis showed that marital dissolution seems to have impact on fertility in Bangladesh.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; HUMAN fertility; MARITAL disruption; MARITAL relations; SOCIOECONOMICS; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
ASA University Review, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 2, p35
- ISSN
1997-6925
- Publication type
Article