title: Socio-economic determinants of divorce in Bangladesh.
abstract: "This study examines the divorce pattern of Bangladesh with a set of socio-economic factors:  education, religion, current residence, childhood residence, work status before and after marriage and age at first marriage.  The source of data was ever-married women aged 15-49 of 1975 Bangladesh Fertility Survey.  Multiple classification analysis technique was used for analyzing the data.... Divorce is found to have a strong inverse relation with age at marriage, and is more common among illiterates, Muslims, and rural women.  The duration of marriage before divorce is found to be very low and the divorce rate is strongly associated with childlessness."
authors.forename: A U
authors.initials: AU
authors.lastname: Ahmed
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D001459:Bangladesh; D001723:Birth Rate; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004243:Divorce; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005298:Fertility; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D008393:Marriage; D010298:Parity; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012067:Religion; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Asia; Bangladesh; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Divorce--determinants; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Employment Status; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Geographic Factors; Housing; Illiterates; Marriage; Marriage Age; Marriage Patterns; Nulliparity; Nuptiality; Parity; Population; Population Dynamics; Religion; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Asia; Spatial Distribution