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...
Knowledge search
Search Weddme Knowledge
Search question titles, tags and concise answers. Search pages are noindex so arbitrary query URLs do not enter search indexes.
All Knowledge questions
24 answers found
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...
Is child marriage linked to education level in Pakistan?
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...
Is child marriage more common in poorer households?
Child marriage is more prevalent in poorer household groups than in wealthier groups in the cited profiles. Household resources can affect school continuation, economic sec...
Why do child-marriage rates vary across Pakistan’s regions?
Child-marriage rates vary because education, household wealth, rural access, local institutions, and social conditions are distributed unevenly across Pakistan. Survey prof...
Why do child-marriage figures change with the age group and survey year?
The standard prevalence indicator usually asks what share of women aged 20–24 married before age 18. That cohort has completed exposure to the threshold, while a group of c...
Where does the World Bank’s Pakistan child-marriage data come from?
The World Bank indicator page republishes a harmonized series sourced through UNICEF and DHS data systems rather than collecting a separate Pakistani marriage survey. For t...
What does “out of school” mean in Pakistan’s education data?
PSLM defines out-of-school children aged 5–16 as those who have never attended school plus those who attended and later left. The 2019–20 district report provides national,...
How many children in Pakistan are out of school?
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...
Which Pakistani province has the highest out-of-school rate?
UNICEF estimates 9.7 million out-of-school children in Punjab, or 27% of the provincial 5–16 population; 7.4 million in Sindh, or 44%; 4.5 million in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or...