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...
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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...