WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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quality of laws prohibiting early marriage when loophold exceptions considered (loop_summ)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 187

Invalid: 6

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 91

loc_end_pos: 91

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	girls can be married at age 13 or younger	26	13.9%
2	gender inequality in age, and girls can be married at ages 1	12	6.4%
3	gender inequality in age, or girls can be married at ages 14	35	18.7%
5	gender parity, and cannot be married until 18 years old or o	101	54%
9	unknown minimum age set by religious and customary law	13	7%
Sysmiss		6

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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