Marriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria

Bola Lukman Solanke

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 4, 2158244015617989

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between age at first marriage and women’s fertility behavior and empowerment. Data were extracted from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. The Poisson regression and multinomial logistic regression were applied using Stata version 12. Results show that the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 15 to 19 years is less than the incident rate of children ever born for women aged 14 years or less (incident rate ratios = 0.8177, p

Keywords: health care; pregnancy termination; mass media; wealth index; age at marriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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