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Age at Marriage in Pakistan

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  • SYED IQBAL ALAM

    (Pakistan Institute of Development Economics)

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The fertility of a population is the consequence of a number of different but interrelated, demographic, social and economic causes. In a country, such as Pakistan, where total fertility is high [16] and the population young [8], age at marriage of women is one of the major determinants of future fertility. In a non-industrial society marriage is often the most important factor which regulates the production of off-spring [9]. The pattern of marriage varies greatly from one country to another under the influence of social factors, and the gross expectation of marital life below the age of 50 years (a rough estimate of the end of the fecund period) for a girl at the beginning of fecund period varies from about two decades in European countries to about three decades in Tropical Africa [9]1.

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  • Syed Iqbal Alam, 1968. "Age at Marriage in Pakistan," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 8(3), pages 489-498.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:8:y:1968:i:3:p:489-498
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