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PROSPERED Dataset: Minimum Age for Marriage

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Title PROSPERED Dataset: Minimum Age for Marriage
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O7EGGP
 
Creator Nandi, Arijit
Ilona Vincent
Efe Atabay
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description This dataset captures the minimum age at which boys and girls can legally marry. It also identifies whether exceptions can be made to minimum age laws. The database is coded for girls and for boys separately, so it is possible to analyze gender.

Scope: For the minimum age and minimum age with parental consent variables, longitudinal data is available for every year between 1995 and 2012 for the 121 countries that have been surveyed by either the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) at least once between those dates.

Variables on other exceptions to minimum age of marriage are not available for the years 1995 to 1998.
 
Subject Law
Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Social Sciences
child marriage
child protection
marriage law
 
Language English
 
Contributor Nandi, Arijit
 
Relation Nandi, Arijit;Ilona Vincent;Efe Atabay, 2018, "PROSPERED Dataset - Breastfeeding breaks legislation in DHS countries 1995-2013", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WWLQKQ, Harvard Dataverse, DRAFT VERSION, UNF:6:Oh9mpTy1xv7z3CGQFfJxcA== [fileUNF]
Nandi, Arijit;Ilona Vincent;Efe Atabay, 2018, "PROSPERED Dataset: Maternity leave policy in DHS countries 1995-2013", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SCZU92, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:o8R1dbEPQBcC1ztUrBx4/w== [fileUNF]
Nandi, Arijit;Ilona Vincent;Efe Atabay, 2018, "PROSPERED Dataset: Minimum wage policy for DHS countries 1999-2013", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MCW60Q, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:/hcjETcQG/QHbmztRJJ+iA== [fileUNF]
 
Type Longitudinal policy