Open AccessMarriage Age, Fertility Behavior, and Women’s Empowerment in Nigeria
Author(s) -
Bola Lukman Solanke
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sage open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2158-2440
DOI - 10.1177/2158244015617989
Subject(s) - demography , poisson regression , fertility , multinomial logistic regression , empowerment , age at first marriage , logistic regression , total fertility rate , psychology , family planning , medicine , population , sociology , research methodology , economics , statistics , mathematics , economic growth
This study examines the relationship between age at first marriageand women’s fertility behavior and empowerment. Data were extracted from the 2013Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. The Poisson regression and multinomial logisticregression were applied using Stata version 12. Results show that the incident rate ofchildren ever born for women aged 15 to 19 years is less than the incident rate ofchildren ever born for women aged 14 years or less (incident rate ratios = 0.8177, p< .01), and that the relative risk of being in high empowerment category instead ofmoderate category will increase by a factor of 2.0988 for those aged 15 to 19 years atfirst marriage compared with those aged 14 years or less. Age at first marriage issignificantly related to women’s fertility behavior and empowerment
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