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Table 2 Prevalence of child marriage and sample characteristics of girls aged 20–24 residing in urban areas in Egypt

From: Understanding the impacts of child marriage on the health and well-being of adolescent girls and young women residing in urban areas in Egypt

 

Number of participants (N = 1041)

%

Weighted %

Age of marriage (years)

 < 15

31

2.98

2.54+

 < 18

210

20.17

13.22+

Age of women (years)

 20

125

12.01

9.88

 21

132

12.68

13.44

 22

231

22.19

21.99

 23

259

24.88

24.25

 24

294

28.24

30.45

Highest level of education

 None

74

7.11

7.74

 Primary

73

7.01

6.69

 Secondary

695

66.76

66.44

 Higher

199

19.12

19.13

Wealth categories

 Poorest/poor

124

11.91

6.88

 Middle

56

5.38

3.9

 Richer/richest

861

82.71

89.23

Religion

 Muslim

986

94.72

94.28

 Christian

55

5.28

5.72

Marriage duration (years)

 Less than 5

810

77.81

75.1

 5–12

231

22.19

24.94

  1. +Adjusted by the all-women factor to generate an of child marriage based on a denominator of all women instead of ever-married women only
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