WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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under customary & religious law exception to min age of marriage (except_crlaw)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

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Valid: 189

Invalid: 4

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 77

loc_end_pos: 77

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	girls can be married under age 18 in all circumstances	15	7.9%
2	there is a religious and/or customary law exception to the m	32	16.9%
5	there is no religious or customary law exception to the mini	142	75.1%
Sysmiss		4

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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