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Average Age at Marriage, Motherhood and Girls Attending School
marriage
Average age
(Years)
at %13-19
are mothers
year
(1992-93)
olds who
attending
%6-17
school
year old
(1998-99)
girls
Punjab
Maharashtra 19.8
22.1
68.1
64.4
81.8
84.9
Uttar
Bihar
Pradesh 19.0
18.8
49.4
48.2
69.9
Kerala 21.5 59.2
59.6
India 19.7 57.7
90.9
72.1
Source:
and Shiva
NHFS
Kumar
–1,
A.K.
1992-93 & NFHS- 21998-99, in Women in India - How free? How equal? By Sen K.
Women’s Autonomy
involved
% not % involved in decision making about %
permission
who do not
to
need
decision
in any cooking Own Purchase Staying Go to Visit
making
health
care
of jewellery,
etc. parents,
with the friends
siblings
market
relatives
and
Uttar
Bihar
Pradesh 16 78 45 41 36 17 12
Rajasthan
14 82 48 43 44 22 21
Madhya
13 82 41 43 39 19 17
Jammu
Pradesh 13 82 37 44 38 21 20
Karnataka
& Kashmir 12 80 56 58 49 12 8
West 88 49 47 45 43 34
Andhra
Bengal 8 87 45 48 47 18 14
Kerala
Pradesh 86 56 61 58 20 15
Delhi
7 81 73 63 60 48 38
Assam 83 69 59 47 51 34
Gujarat
5 88 65 54 45 13 14
Goa 90 71 74 65 55 51
Haryana
4 90 62 63 72 67 59
Sikkim 94 67 78 65 37 21
Tamil
3 92 60 58 57 38 42
Punjab
Nadu 2 92 61 67 62 79 56
Himachal Pradesh 1 95
97
81
79
93
75
91
68
33
50
31
28
Source: NFHS-2, 1998-99, in Women in India - How free? How equal? By Sen K. and Shiva Kumar A.K.
Gender — A Swa-Shakti Working Paper