| Re: Definition of marriage in DHS-Bangladesh [message #2843 is a reply to message #2830] |
Sun, 31 August 2014 12:32  |
Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013
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The definition of marriage is as defined in the report, however, we are reliant on the respondent's responses and if the respondent says a person is married according to the definition then we do not question the response further. I took a look at some of the cases in the 2011 dataset and I found 103 girls (unweighted numbers) age 12-14 listed as currently married. Of these 28 were listed as daughter of the head of household and two were listed as grandchildren. Of these 30, 19 of them were listed as not being usual residents of the household but having slept in the household the previous night - just 11 girls were listed as usual residents.
I hope this helps to clarify.
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