Education in profiles, partner preferences, literacy context and how not to overread education data.
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PSLM and HIES measure literacy, attendance, enrolment, attainment and out-of-school status. The latest HIES 2024–25 social report puts literacy at 63% for people aged 10+, including 73%…
HIES 2024–25 reports 77% literacy among young people aged 15–24 and 60% among adults aged 15+. The overall age-10+ measure is 63%. These denominators differ: adults include older…
The measure covers children aged 5–16 who never attended school or attended and left. The latest HIES 2024–25 report estimates 28% nationally, compared with 30% in its 2018–19 comparison…
UNICEF currently estimates that 25.1 million children aged 5–16 in Pakistan are out of school, representing about 35% of that age group. It describes Pakistan as having one...
The cited studies cannot establish that education causes newlyweds to choose a nuclear rather than a joint household. Education overlaps with employment, residence, resources and family…
69.2% of the 5,427 analyzed Weddme profiles reported a bachelor’s degree or higher. The proportion was 89.0% among women’s profiles and 65.8% among men’s profiles. Higher e...
Within this cohort, yes. A bachelor’s degree or higher appeared on 721 of 810 women’s profiles, or 89.0%, compared with 3,037 of 4,617 men’s profiles, or 65.8%. The result...
Bachelor-educated preference setters frequently included both bachelor’s and master’s categories. Among women in this group, 80.9% included bachelor’s and 58.6% included ma...
The report analyzed the education categories that eligible profiles saved as acceptable for a partner and compared those sets with each profile holder’s recorded education....
Own education appeared in the saved acceptable partner-education set for 2,470 of the 3,204 analyzed profiles, equal to 77.09%. The remaining 734 profiles did not include t...
No. It means the profile holder’s education category appeared somewhere inside a multi-select list of acceptable partner categories. The same profile could also include qua...
A broad education preference means a profile included several education categories in its acceptable partner set. The report measures this as preference breadth: one select...
The median profile in the 3,204-profile analytical cohort selected two partner-education categories, while the mean was 3.06. A total of 872 profiles—27.22% of preference-b...
Bachelor’s Degree was the most frequently included category, appearing in 2,080 of 3,204 saved preference sets, or 64.92%. Master’s Degree appeared in 43.60%, Higher Second...
Own education was included by 77.41% of men’s profiles and 75.65% of women’s profiles in their respective saved preference cohorts. The gap was small, and the association b...
Formal-education direction compares a profile holder’s recorded level with selected partner levels along a limited order: Secondary School, Higher Secondary, Diploma, Bache...
Professional and religious credentials follow different systems, purposes, and forms of recognition from the formal progression between school, bachelor’s, master’s, and do...
The appendix shows some variation across profession groups, but the study cannot confidently attribute those differences to profession itself. Raw job labels require normal...
Pakistan DHS analysis shows a strong association between higher education and later female age at first marriage. In the 2017–18 DHS summary, women with no education had a...
Yes, child marriage is strongly associated with education level in Pakistan’s survey profiles: prevalence is substantially higher among women with less education and much l...
School enrollment matters to marriage-age research because remaining in education changes the time available for completing school, entering work, and considering marriage....
National indicators estimate literacy, attendance, attainment, or enrollment for defined population groups using surveys or administrative systems. Weddme profile education...
Education is strongly associated with reported involvement, although it does not prove that schooling alone caused the difference. In the 2017–18 Pakistan DHS, about 74.8%…
Pakistan DHS tables show that marriage to relatives is generally less common among women with higher education than among women with no schooling, but it remains present at…
Educational similarity may make conversation, social networks or career expectations easier in some couples, but it is not a reliable guarantee of satisfaction. Education…
In the education-preference study, 77.09% of analyzed profiles included their own education level in their saved acceptable partner-education set.
The median saved partner-education breadth was 2 categories, while 27.22% selected four or more categories.