Factors associated with female age at first marriage: An analysis using all waves of the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT: In conventional Muslim societies, fertility occurs within the marital union. Therefore, fertility outcomes depend on females' age at first marriage (AFM). The present study explores the pattern of AFM in Pakistan, analyses of which are scarce in the literature. We aim to identify the factors associated with the AFM among currently married women in Pakistan. Demographic factors like birth cohort, and socioeconomic and cultural factors such as province and place of residence, education level, whether or not a woman had ever worked before marriage, ethnicity, and husband's education were studied to explore the pattern of female AFM. Data were taken from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys (PDHSs) of 2012-13 and 2017-18, and a comparison was made with the findings from the earlier PDHS

SUBMITTER: Rasul A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8923498 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature