The prevalence and demographic characteristics of consanguineous marriages in Pakistan
The prevalence and demographic characteristics of consanguineous marriages in Pakistan
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DOI：
10.1017/s0021932098002612
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发表时间：
1998-04-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Bittles, AH
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作者：
Hussain, R;Bittles, AH
在西亚和南亚大部分地区，近亲结婚受到强烈欢迎。本文利用当地和国家数据研究了巴基斯坦近亲结婚的流行率和社会人口统计学相关性。将居住在该国主要商业中心卡拉奇四个多民族和多语言棚户区的 1011 名已婚妇女的信息与 1990/91 年巴基斯坦全国人口和健康调查 (PDHS) 的数据进行比较，该调查基于 6611 名妇女提供的信息。两组结果均表明，大约 60% 的婚姻是近亲结婚，其中超过 80% 是堂兄弟姐妹之间的婚姻。卡拉奇和 PDHS 数据的当代近交平均系数 (F) 分别为 0.0316 和 0.0331。在这两项调查中，近亲结婚的普遍程度在过去三到四十年里似乎没有变化。近亲结婚在文盲或仅受过初等教育、来自巴基斯坦农村地区的第一代或第二代移民的妇女中更为常见，或者在PDHS中，居住在农村地区且其父母也是近亲结婚的妇女。
Consanguineous marriages are strongly preferred in much of West and South Asia. This paper examines the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of consanguineous unions in Pakistan using local and national data. Information from 1011 ever-married women living in four multi-ethnic and multi-lingual squatter settlements of Karachi, the main commercial centre of the country, are compared with data from the national 1990/91 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS), based on information provided by 6611 women. Both sets of results indicate that approximately 60% of marriages were consanguineous, over 80% of which were between first cousins. The mean coefficients of inbreeding (F) in the present generation were 0.0316 and 0.0331 for the Karachi and PDHS data respectively. In both surveys the prevalence of consanguineous unions appeared to be unchanged over the past three to four decades. Consanguineous unions were more common among women who were illiterate or had only primary level education, were first or second generation migrants from rural areas of Pakistan or, in the PDHS, lived in rural areas, and whose parents were also consanguineously married.