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Application of a marriage model in rural Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury
A. K. M. Alauddin Chowdhury
Affiliation:
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dacca, Bangladesh
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Summary

The applicability of the Coale-McNeil marriage entry model to a Bangladesh population is examined. The distribution of ages at entry into the marriage market is taken as normal and the general waiting times to marriage as negative exponential. This article examines two types of data from Bangladesh: (1) the distributions of ages at entry to the marriage market and waiting times, to verify the basic assumptions of the model, and (2) cross-sectional survey data, to derive the fitted first-marriage schedule. In both instances, the model showed a good fit with the Bangladesh data. In the absence of accurate marital registration data, the model may be appropriately utilized to estimate the ages of marriage of females in Bangladesh.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 281 - 288
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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