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- Title
GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS AND CONTEXTUAL EFFECT ON CHILD MARRIAGE IN BANGLADESH.
- Authors
Kamal, S. M. Mostafa
- Abstract
Child marriage is an increasingly important public health, social as well as human rights issue. Despite this, little is known about the geographical and contextual factors associated with child marriage in Bangladesh. This study was designed to examine the regional and contextual disparities of child marriage of a weighted sample of 9,572 ever-married women aged 20-49. Data were culled from the nationally representative 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. Both bivariate and multivariate statistical analyses were employed to examine the prevalence and socioeconomic correlates of child marriage in Bangladesh. The statistical analyses confirmed that the risk of child marriage decreased over time. The fixed effect binary logistic regression model yielded significantly increased risk of child marriage among rural residents, the Muslims and the poorest. Women's education appeared as the single determinant of child marriage. Vigorous attempts should be made to remain the girls in school for an extended period. Along with formal education, women should be made aware of the risk and adverse outcome of child marriage and teenage pregnancy through informal education. Proper implementation of the ordinance of legal age at marriage may also raise the age at first marriage of women in Bangladesh.
- Subjects
CHILD marriage; PUBLIC health; HUMAN rights; MARRIED women; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 2, p37
- ISSN
1024-1256
- Publication type
Article