Trend of child marriage in Bangladesh: a reflection on significant socioeconomic factors
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Article Title | Trend of child marriage in Bangladesh: a reflection on significant socioeconomic factors |
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ERA Journal ID | 34203 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Biswas, Raaj Kishore (Author), Khan, Jahidur Rahman (Author) and Kabir, Enamul (Author) |
Journal Title | Children and Youth Services Review |
Journal Citation | 104, pp. 1-9 |
Article Number | 104382 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2019 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0190-7409 |
1873-7765 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.06.017 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0190740918311113 |
Abstract | A complicating factor for child marriage in Bangladesh is age heaping or digital preference, where young girls misreport their age, claiming to be older or younger than they are. Analysis based on four nationally representative cross-sectional surveys over the last 10 years has shown that the age adjusted results are similar to the reported age results in terms of the direction of the associated socioeconomic factors; however, their effect sizes have changed. Data from 2004 to 2014 of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) were used and cumulative link mixed models (CLMM) were fitted to ascertain the risk factors by adjusting cluster effects, where the outcome variable was categorized by women's age of marriage (ordinal in nature). Even after age adjustment, education of respondents and their partners, age of both the head of the house and their partner, and the geographic division showed a significant association in all surveys. Although the year wise effect showed significant improvement over the years in pooled data, the rate of improvement was not encouraging. Notable cluster (or community) level variations have been observed over the years, indicating that community specific factors such as regional culture and local environments should be considered during the intervention design. |
Keywords | age adjustment, age heaping, Bangladesh, child marriage, cluster variation, digital preference, early marriage, education |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 429999. Other health sciences not elsewhere classified |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | University of New South Wales |
University of Canberra | |
School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences |
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