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Child Marriage and Sexual Autonomy among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from 31 Demographic and Health Surveys by Eugene Budu; Bright Opoku Ahinkorah; Abdul-Aziz Seidu; John Elvis Hagan; Wonder Agbemavi; James Boadu Frimpong; Collins Adu; Kwamena Sekyi Dickson; Sanni Yaya is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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Child marriage has a variety of undesirable consequences at the peril of women’s health and autonomy. In this study, we examined the association between child marriage and sexual autonomy among women in sub-Saharan Africa. We utilised data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2010 and 2019. A total of 218,578 women aged 20–49 were included in this study. Multivariable binary logistic regression models were used to show the association between child marriage and sexual autonomy. Crude odds ratio (cOR) and adjusted odds ratio (aOR) were used in presenting the results. The prevalence of child marriage and sexual autonomy was 44.51% and 83.35%, respectively. Compared to women who married at 18 years or above, those who married at less than 18 were less likely to have sexual autonomy, and this persisted after controlling for important covariates. In terms of the country-specific results, women who experienced child marriage were less likely to have sexual autonomy in Burundi, Congo DR, Nigeria, and Niger. With the covariates, lower odds of sexual autonomy were found among women with no formal education, those whose p

Author

Eugene Budu; Bright Opoku Ahinkorah; Abdul-Aziz Seidu; John Elvis Hagan; Wonder Agbemavi; James Boadu Frimpong; Collins Adu; Kwamena Sekyi Dickson; Sanni Yaya

Publisher

MDPI AG

Published

2021

Language

EN