Early Marriage among  young  girls in Eastern Ethiopia: trend during 2008-2018 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Early marriage practices undermine girls' autonomy and seriously affect their physical and mental wellbeing. Monitoring the trends and understanding the drivers is essential in intervening against early marriage. However, many studies on early marriage in Ethiopia are cross-sectional, focusing...

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Published in:F1000 research 2022, Vol.10, p.807-807
Main Authors: Abdurahman, Dureti, Assefa, Nega, Berhane, Yemane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child marriage
Data collection
Data Note
Demography
early marriage
eng
Ethiopia
Girls
incidence
Key words:   adolescent girls
Public health
Sociodemographics
Surveillance
Trends
Variables
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Summary:Early marriage practices undermine girls' autonomy and seriously affect their physical and mental wellbeing. Monitoring the trends and understanding the drivers is essential in intervening against early marriage. However, many studies on early marriage in Ethiopia are cross-sectional, focusing only on the magnitude at a single point in time. Hence, we extracted data of girls of 10-17 years from Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kersa HDSS) database for the period of 2008-2018 in order to examine the trends of early marriage. In this data note we provide the details of a research database of 24,452 girls in the age group of 10-17 years. The extracted data include date of marriage and the girls' socio-demographic variables. Other variables considered to be potentially associated with timing of marriage were also extracted. The purpose of this publication is to describe the dataset for external researchers who may be interested in making use of it as a secondary use of their routinely collected data. This dataset is available at    https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.15034812.
ISSN:2046-1402
2046-1402
DOI:10.12688/f1000research.55551.2