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2.3 Age at First MarriageWomen who reported ever being in union were asked the month and year in which they beganliving with their first partner. If they could not report the year, they were asked the age when they begantheir first cohabiting relationship. Sixty-two percent of respondents reported the year and the month offirst marriage, 20 percent reported the year only, and 18 percent reported the age at first marriage. Fromthese data, statistics on age at first marriage were calculated. However, caution should be exercised whendrawing conclusions, since some respondents, particularly older women, may have had difficultyrecalling the date of first marriage or their age at first marriage, and interviewers had to probe for theinformation.Table 2.3 shows the distribution of women in age groups by age at first union. For each agegroup starting at age 25, the median age at first marriage is also shown. (The median age at first marriageis not shown for age groups under age 25 because less than 50 percent of respondents had married(women 15-19) or some single members of the age group were younger than the median age at marriageof those who had married and, if they married, could lower the median age (women 20-24).)Table 2.3 Percent Distribution of Women by Age at First Union and Median Age at First Union,According to Current Age, ODHS, 1986Age at First UnionNumber MedianCurrent Never Total of Age atAge Married < 15 15-17 18-19 20-21 22-24 25 + Percent Women ist union*15 - 19 88.6 2.0 7.3 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 I00.0 110920 - 24 40.1 4.6 14.2 19.5 15.1 6.4 0.0 i00.0 56328 - 29 7.3 7.0 22.1 18.9 19.8 19.3 5.8 i00.0 560 20.230 - 34 0.O 10.4 29.2 20.4 17.5 15.3 7.1 i00.0 548 18.935 - 39 0.0 5.4 25.1 23.2 22.4 14.6 9.2 100.0 478 19.740 - 44 0.0 8.2 24.9 20.5 20.1 16.1 10.3 100.0 478 19.745 - 49 0.O 2.5 20.8 28.5 21.8 15.7 10.7 100.0 477 19.9Total 29.7 8.3 18.6 16.8 14.2 I0.7 5.I 100.0 4213* Defined as the age by which one-half of women have ever marriedThe median age at first marriage for women 25 to 49 is about 20 and shows little variationbetween five-year age groups. This suggests that age at first marriage was stable in Ondo State fromabout 1960 to 1980. However, for the period since 1980 there is evidence that age at first marriage hasincreased. The evidence comes from statistics on the proportion single at age 20 among women 20-24and 25-29. Table 2.3 indicates that 62 percent of women 20-24 were single at age 20 while only 52percent of women 25-29 were single at age 20.Additional evidence of a recent change in the age at first marriage can be obtained by comparingstatistics for Ondo State from the 1980 NDSS and the 1986 ODHS. The proportion of single womenaged 15-19 increased from 80 percent in the NDSS to 89 percent in the ODHS, among women aged 20-24, 40 percent were single in both surveys (National Population Bureau and Institute for ResourceDevelopment/Westinghouse [1988]: Table III-1). Given the problem with age reporting in Nigeria, these13
esults must be interpreted with caution; however, they suggest recent increases in the age at firstmarriage in Ondo State.Table 2.4 shows differentials in the median age at first marriage for women age 25-49 by area ofresidence, education and religious affthation. Differences in the median age at marriage exist by area ofresidence and religious affiliation, but they are small and not always consistent across age groups. Thefinding of similar values of the median age at first marriage for Muslim (19.7) and Protestant women(19.8) in the ODHS is consistent with the findings of the 1981-82 Nigeria Fertility Survey for Ondo State(National Population Bureau and Federal Ministry of Health, 1986, Table 4). This is distinctly differentfrom the findings of that survey at the national level where the median age at first marriage for Muslimwomen (15.3) is much lower than for Christian women (19.0) (National Population Bureau, 1984, Table4.4). The findings for Ondo State are probably a case of the small Muslim minority adopting the norm ofthe overwhelming majority of the population.Table 2.4 Median Age at First Union Among Women Aged 25-49Years, by Current Age and Background Characteristics,ODHS, 1986Current AgeBackgroundCharacteristic 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 TotalResidenceUrban 20.5 19.3 20.2 20.1 20.1 20.1Rural 20.2 18.4 19.3 19.5 19.7 19.5Riverine 17.6 19.9 20.1 19.0 20.2 19.5EducationNone 18.7 18.5 19.2 19.4 19.8 19.3Primary 19.0 18.7 28.2 20.5 19.7 19.5Secondary + 22.8 22.4 20.3 19.9 22.0 22.2ReligionCatholic 19.2 19.0 19.3 19.2 19.2 19.2Protestant 20.4 19.0 19.7 19.8 19.9 19.8Muslim 19.4 18.7 20.2 19.7 20.3 19.7Other/None 20.7 18.5 19.2 18.3 20.0 19.2Total 20.2 18.9 19.7 19.7 19.9 19.7Pronounced differences in the median age at first marriage are associated with education. Forwomen in the age group 25-49, the median age at first marriage is higher for women with secondary ormore education (22.2) than for women with primary (19.5) or no education (19.3). The differencebetween women with secondary or more education and women with no education amounts to four yearsfor women aged 25-29 (22.8 versus 18.7).14
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REFERENCESCttieh-Johnson, D., Cross
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APPENDIX ASURVEY DESIGNA.1 Sample D
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