Age in the beginning wedding – Median age in years whenever females many years 15 to 49 very very first married or lived with a partner that is consensual.
This indicator is calculated as:
(range females (within certain age bracket category) that have married / quantity of women of all of the statuses that are marital x 100
Calculations are carried out within the steps that are followingsee MACRO/DHS, 2011):
- Age in the beginning wedding or very first union is determined whilst the distinction between date whenever girl started managing first spouse or consensual partner and date of delivery of girl in finished solitary years.
- The numerators would be the wide range of females within solitary 12 months of age categories who possess hitched or resided in an union that is consensual.
- The denominator may be the amount of ladies of all of the marital statuses.
- Numerators for every single age category are divided because of the matching age category denominator and increased by 100 to have percentages.
- After the percentages have already been determined within particular age bracket groups, medians are calculated through the cumulated year that is single of per cent distributions when it comes to many years women were first hitched. The median is linearly interpolated amongst the age values in which 50 % or higher associated with the females had been first married or lived in consensual union.
The graph would show for example, if 10% of 17 year olds sampled were already married, 30% of 18 year olds, 41% of 19 year olds, and 62% of 20 year olds