>From: Ylva Hernlund <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list              <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: marriage statistics >Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 07:54:29 -0800 > >A colleague of mine sent these, more recent, figures: > >this past week i just so happened to get the 'report from the national >survey on maternal, perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality and >contraceptive prevalence' (that's a mouthful) from the MCH division >(published in 2002 by DoSH/SW in collab. with UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, >PHPNP/WB). this is probably one of the most recent studies that documents >'type of union' for a fairly represenative sample of gambians (the more >detailed 2003 census data is, sadly, nowhere near publication). they >surveyed a total of 5,786 women between the ages of 15-49 and 5,050 men >over age 18 and found that among women, 50.7% were in monogamous unions, >47.3% in polygynous unions and 1.9% not available. among men, 63.3% were >in monogamous unions, 34.3% polygynous and 2.5% not available. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~