Abstract

Early marriage practices undermine girls’ autonomy and seriously affect their physical and mental wellbeing. Monitoring the trends and understanding the drivers is essential in intervening against early marriage. However, many studies on early marriage in Ethiopia are cross-sectional, focusing only on the magnitude at a single point in time. Hence, we extracted data of girls of 10-17 years from Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kersa HDSS) database for the period of 2008–2018 in order to examine the trends of early marriage. In this data note we provide the details of a research database of 24,452 girls in the age group of 10-17 years. The extracted data include date of marriage and the girls’ socio-demographic variables. Other variables considered to be potentially associated with timing of marriage were also extracted. The purpose of this publication is to describe the dataset for external researchers who may be interested in making use of it as a secondary use of their routinely collected data. This dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.15034812.

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  • Marriage is any marriage where at least one of the parties is under 18 years of age (OHCHR, 2019)

  • 40% of girls in Ethiopia are married before they turn 18 years and approximately 14% are married before their 15th birthday (UNICEF, 2018)

  • We extracted data of girls of 10–17 years from the Kersa Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Kersa HDSS) database for the period of 2008–2018 in order to examine the trends of early marriage

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Marriage is any marriage where at least one of the parties is under 18 years of age (OHCHR, 2019). Keywords Key words: adolescent girls, incidence, early marriage, Ethiopia Introduction Early marriage is any marriage where at least one of the parties is under 18 years of age (OHCHR, 2019). 40% of girls in Ethiopia are married before they turn 18 years and approximately 14% are married before their 15th birthday (UNICEF, 2018).

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