| dc.description.abstract | Purpose: Despite the fact that early marriage is considered a violation of human
rights, in Bangladesh, a sizable portion of women get married before turning 18.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether early marriage is influenced
by women's preferences for the timing of their marriages as well as other
socioeconomic factors in Bangladesh.
Methodology: The Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS)
2017–18 was utilized to collect the latest data for the study. The relationship
between socioeconomic characteristics and early marriage among women was
examined using a bivariate cross-tabulation and the chi-square test. Binary
logistic regression was then executed.
Findings: We discovered that women who wished to wed at the proper time
tended to wed later rather than earlier. Additionally, partners' education levels
are just as essential as women's education levels in preventing early marriage.
Women who were employed before marriage and who were not Muslim tend to
have fewer early marriages, necessitating government intervention to generate
social awareness programs, create more opportunities for women to work, and
build vocational training institutions in rural and urban areas.
Practical Implications: Policies to lower the rate of early marriage among
women in Bangladesh can be developed using the study's findings.
Originaity/Value: The study includes some new variables and uses the latest
dataset. This study also paves the way for doing further research by collecting
some other variables that were not present in the dataset.
Limitations: Due to data unavailability, analysis of certain variables' impact on
marital age could not be done. Also, the dataset might have some underreporting errors. | en_US |
