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BMC Women's Health

Are delay ages at marriage increasing? Pre-marital sexual relation among youth people in the place of residence in India

  • Open Access
  • 01-12-2023
  • Research
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Authors
Ujjwal Das
Sasmita Rout
Published in
BMC Women's Health | Issue 1/2023

Abstract

Background

Adolescent sexual and reproductive health is a major public health issue throughout the world. At the same time shifting of marriage are undergoing discernible changes in country like India. This paper attempts to examine the effect of delay age at marriage on the risks of pre-marital sexual intercourse for the youth people in the place of residence.

Methods

Data used in the present study is from various annual publications of Sample Registration System (SRS) and four round of National Family Health Survey, which was conducted in 2015–2016. The Kaplan–Meier life table technique and multivariate regression models are used to examine the premarital sex by the place of residence and marriage cohort.

Results

Findings of the study indicate that the reasons underlying delayed marriage differs between blow 21 years age group and 22–30 years age group. Multinomial analysis clearly shows education, wealth quintile and mass media are major controlling factors of delayed age at marriage. Residing in urban adolescent women who belonged to better economic family background and exposed to mass media had a higher probability to experience premarital sexual intercourse than the rural adolescent in delay age group.

Conclusion

The study concludes that the restorative the empowerment of youth especially for women and health care provider should consider a multidimensional approach for higher education among youth people and safe sexual behaviour in pre-marital sexual intercourse.
Title
Are delay ages at marriage increasing? Pre-marital sexual relation among youth people in the place of residence in India
Authors
Ujjwal Das
Sasmita Rout
Publication date
01-12-2023
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Women's Health / Issue 1/2023
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6874
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-02149-3
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