Did the open-ended 51+ age option change Weddme’s results?
The product’s 51+ category has no fixed upper limit, but midpoint and width calculations require a maximum. The main analysis capped it at 60, which could have distorted re...
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How common were non-contiguous age preferences on Weddme?
Non-contiguous selections appeared in only 17 profiles, equal to 0.54% of the full 3,129-profile analytical cohort. Among the narrower group of 1,378 profiles that selected...
Which age groups make up Pakistan’s young-adult population?
Pakistan’s young-adult population is spread across three large five-year groups in the 2023 Census: about 20.47 million people aged 20–24, 17.97 million aged 25–29, and 15....
How many people aged 20–34 live in Pakistan?
Approximately 54.20 million people aged 20–34 lived in Pakistan at the 2023 Census reference point. They represented about 22.5% of the national population. This combined t...
Why does a mother’s age matter in Pakistan’s birth statistics?
The Pakistan Demographic Survey tabulates live births by the mother’s age and by urban or rural residence. These age-specific counts help demographers examine fertility pat...
What is the median age at first marriage for women in Pakistan?
The 2017–18 Pakistan DHS reported a median age at first marriage of 20.4 years for women aged 25–49. The age restriction matters because most women in this group had enough...
Why is women’s median marriage age usually calculated for ages 25–49?
Age at first marriage can be calculated only for people who have married, while younger respondents still include many who will marry later. Restricting the median to women...
Is women’s age at first marriage rising in Pakistan?
Yes, women’s age at first marriage has risen gradually in Pakistan across the 1990–91, 2006–07, 2012–13, and 2017–18 DHS waves. The change was not a sudden or uniform trans...
Why can teenage marriage-age averages be misleading?
Most women aged 15–19 who will marry later have not yet had a first marriage, so their marriage age is unavailable at the time of the survey. Calculating an average only am...
Do women marry later in urban or rural Pakistan?
Across the DHS analyses, women living in urban areas generally had a higher age at first marriage than women living in rural areas. For currently married women aged 25–49 i...
Is preferred partner age the same as age at first marriage?
Age at first marriage is an observed demographic event: the respondent’s age when the first marriage occurred. Preferred partner age on Weddme is a saved search parameter r...
How common is child marriage in Pakistan?
UNICEF defines child marriage as marriage or union before age 18 and reports that Pakistan is home to more than 19 million women who were married as children. Its country p...