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...
Does education affect women’s age at first marriage in Pakistan?
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...
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...
Who is included in the DHS category “currently married women”?
“Currently married women” are respondents whose marital status was married at the time of the survey. The group excludes never-married, widowed, divorced, and separated wom...
What is the average marriage age in Pakistan?
There is no single defensible average marriage age for every Pakistani adult. The 2017–18 DHS instead reported separate medians: 20.4 years at first marriage among women ag...
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 many Pakistani women have a say in choosing their husband?
In the 2017–18 Pakistan DHS, 80.5% of ever-married women aged 15–49 reported having a say in choosing their husband, referring to the first husband for women married more t...
Can a family-arranged marriage include a woman’s choice?
Yes. Family involvement and personal choice are not opposites. In the 2017–18 Pakistan DHS, 80.5% of ever-married women aged 15–49 reported having a say in choosing their h...
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...
What percentage of Pakistani women aged 20–24 married before 18?
The survey-derived 2018 indicator reports that 18.3% of Pakistani women aged 20–24 had first married or entered a union before age 18. Using women aged 20–24 ensures every...
How common is marriage before 15 compared with marriage before 18?
Among Pakistani women aged 20–24 in the 2017–18 survey data, about 3.6% had married before age 15 and 18.3% before age 18. The second figure includes the first group, so th...