PMID- 32641190
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210819
LR  - 20210819
IS  - 1469-7599 (Electronic)
IS  - 0021-9320 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 4
DP  - 2021 Jul
TI  - Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: 
      evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015-2016.
PG  - 566-576
LID - 10.1017/S0021932020000383 [doi]
AB  - The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and examine the 
      determinants of consanguineous marriage types in India. Data for 456,646 
      ever-married women aged 15-49 years were analysed from the National Family Health 
      Survey (NFHS)-4 conducted in 2015-16. The overall prevalence of consanguineous 
      marriage was 9.9%; the South region (23%) and North-East region (3.1%) showed the 
      highest and lowest prevalences, respectively. Muslims had a higher prevalence 
      (15%) than Hindus (9%). The prevalence of first cousin marriage (8.7%) was more 
      than that of second cousin (0.7%) and of uncle-niece marriages (0.6%). Women 
      living in urban areas and in nuclear families, having a higher level of education 
      and belonging to affluent families were less likely to marry their cousins (p < 
      0.01). Women living in the South region of the country were more likely to marry 
      their cousins, as well as uncles (p < 0.001). Close scrutiny of the trends in the 
      results (odds ratios) revealed no clear relationship between socioeconomic 
      condition and consanguineous marriage. The study results suggest that religion 
      and north-south regional dichotomy in culture largely determine consanguineous 
      marriage rather than socioeconomic condition in India.
FAU - Sharma, Santosh Kumar
AU  - Sharma SK
AD  - Centre for Health Policy, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, India.
FAU - Kalam, Mir Azad
AU  - Kalam MA
AD  - Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
FAU - Ghosh, Saswata
AU  - Ghosh S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9337-683X
AD  - Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Salt Lake, Kolkata, India.
FAU - Roy, Subho
AU  - Roy S
AD  - Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200709
PL  - England
TA  - J Biosoc Sci
JT  - Journal of biosocial science
JID - 0177346
SB  - IM
MH  - Consanguinity
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - *Prevalence
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Consanguineous marriage types
OT  - Determinants
OT  - India
EDAT- 2020/07/10 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/20 06:00
CRDT- 2020/07/10 06:00
PHST- 2020/07/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/07/10 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0021932020000383 [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S0021932020000383 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Biosoc Sci. 2021 Jul;53(4):566-576. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000383. Epub 2020 
      Jul 9.