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Table 3 percentage of married young women in education, by age

From: Gender gaps in the path to adulthood for young females and males in six African countries from the 1990s to the 2010s

Country

Year

Age

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

Burkina Faso

1998

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.7

0.0

0.8

0.5

1.4

2010

0.0

9.1

3.7

3.9

4.0

2.1

1.6

2.8

Ethiopia

2000

0.6

0.3

6.4

5.2

1.7

1.7

0.1

0.6

2011

24.2

12.9

3.3

5.7

6.7

3.0

5.5

6.6

Ghana

1993

0.0

10.0

0.0

0.0

3.6

0.8

2.8

1.8

2014

0.0

0.0

0.0

1.5

0.0

3.4

5.3

1.2

Kenya

1993

0.0

0.0

2.3

1.5

0.0

2.0

0.4

3.5

2014

7.8

1.6

0.9

1.6

3.7

2.9

2.6

4.8

Tanzania

1996

0.0

0.0

1.7

0.0

0.0

3.0

0.4

1.1

2010

0.0

0.0

2.8

0.0

0.1

0.0

1.1

0.0

Uganda

1995

6.2

2.1

1.4

1.2

0.2

0.6

0.7

0.9

2011

31.5

1.2

4.8

0.0

0.4

1.9

0.0

1.8

  1. Source: Authors’ calculation from DHS survey data. The numbers of observations on which this table is based range from 487 for the case of Ghana in 2014 to 2642 for the case of Burkina Faso in 2010
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