Cross-sectional time series analysis of associations between education and girl child marriage in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, 1991-2011

Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage 20%) of girl child marriage- Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Cross-sectional time series analyses were conducted on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 1991 to 2011 in the four focal nations. Analy...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-09, Vol.9 (9), p.e106210-e106210
Main Authors: Raj, Anita, McDougal, Lotus, Silverman, Jay G, Rusch, Melanie L A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age
Bangladesh
Child marriage
Children & youth
Cross-Sectional Studies
Demographics
Education
Education - statistics & numerical data
Female
Gender equity
Girls
Households
Humans
India
Marriage
Marriage - statistics & numerical data
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Nepal
Pakistan
People and Places
Population
Public health
Regression analysis
Regression models
Research and Analysis Methods
Risk
Social Sciences
Studies
Teenagers
Time Factors
Time series
Young Adult
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Summary:Girl education is believed to be the best means of reducing girl child marriage (marriage 20%) of girl child marriage- Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Cross-sectional time series analyses were conducted on Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 1991 to 2011 in the four focal nations. Analyses were restricted to ever-married women aged 20-24 years. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to assess the effect of highest level of education received (none, primary, secondary or higher) on age at marriage (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0106210