WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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gender disparity in legal min age of marriage with parental consent (legal_diff_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 192

Invalid: 1

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 88

loc_end_pos: 88

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	no specific minimum age for girls	6	3.1%
2	girls can be married 3 years younger than boys	10	5.2%
3	girls can be married 1 to 2 years younger than boys	22	11.5%
5	no difference in minimum age	154	80.2%
9	unknown minimum age set by religious or customary law	0	0%
Sysmiss		1

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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