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Education and assortative marriage in Northern and urban Sudan, 1945–79

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abdelrahman
Abdelrahman Ibrahim Abdelrahman
Affiliation:
New Jersey Department of Health, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
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Summary

This study examines the extent of assortative mating for education in Northern Sudan and urban Khartoum. More males than females were found at higher levels of education. Increasingly, people tend to marry persons of equal educational level, but the unequal educational opportunities for males and females have led to the emergence of educational exogamy in which members of different educational levels are more likely to marry from the adjacent educational category than from distant categories. The increasing level of education for both sexes, and especially for females, may in part explain the rising trend in age at marriage.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 341 - 348
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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