How important is city or location when choosing a spouse?
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Location can become a practical marriage condition when it determines residence, work, care for parents, language, travel or immigration. Its importance is therefore personal rather than a fixed national ranking. A city field may mean “already lives there,” “willing to move,” “family is from there” or simply a search radius, and those meanings should not be merged. Pakistan’s regional differences in urbanization and internet access make location relevant to discovery, but they do not reveal how much weight any individual gives it.
Sources used
National Census Report 2023
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
Official census report defining marital-status categories and reporting national and provincial distributions.View sourceHIES 2024–25: Social Indicators Report
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
Latest report linked by PBS at review: literacy, out-of-school children, household size and internet use. Survey period 2024–25; PDF page and table definitions matter.Source checked:
View sourceConceptualising integration: a framework for empirical research, taking marriage migration as a case study
Comparative Migration Studies
Integration framework drawing on research with British Pakistani Muslim and British Indian Sikh marriage-migration families. Not a 2020 national Pakistani marriage survey.Source checked:
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