*Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden
**Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, International Islamic University, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Online published on 4 October, 2013.
This study examines the mean age at first marriage for the different categories of the variables- region, wealth index, type of place of residence and education of respondent. It is observed that the age at first marriage has a dependency on these four variables. Also to identify the influences of any category compare to other for these variables was employed logistic regression. The overall mean at first marriage of women in Nigeria is 16.92 years and it is very early stage marriage for the North West Region (14.88 years). Independence χ2 test statistic and logistic regression analysis reveals that respondents region, type of place of residence, wealth index and education have highly significant impact on age at first marriage. And only 14% of the variation of age at first marriage is explained by these variables.
Age at First marriage, logistic regression, χ2 test statistic, odds ratio, Influential observations
