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Zambia Demographic and Health Survey 2001-2002 - Measure DHS

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Table 6.4 Median age at first marriageMedian age at first marriage among women 20-49 <strong>and</strong> among men 25-59, by background characteristics, <strong>Zambia</strong> <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong>––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Current age Women Women MenBackground –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– age age agecharacteristic 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 20-49 25-49 25-59––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––ResidenceUrban 19.9 18.9 18.9 17.7 17.5 16.7 18.7 18.3 24.5Rural 18.0 18.0 17.7 17.4 17.2 16.8 17.7 17.6 22.6ProvinceCentral 17.9 18.2 18.3 17.6 16.3 16.2 17.7 17.6 23.2Copperbelt 19.4 18.6 18.5 17.2 16.8 16.3 18.2 17.8 24.2Eastern 17.8 17.8 17.6 17.3 17.0 17.9 17.6 17.6 22.0Luapula 18.0 17.8 17.8 16.5 (17.1) 16.3 17.4 17.2 22.9Lusaka 19.3 18.8 19.2 17.8 17.6 (16.6) 18.7 18.4 23.6Northern 18.2 17.9 17.7 17.4 17.9 17.8 17.8 17.7 23.3North-Western 19.2 18.0 17.4 16.9 16.4 16.4 17.6 17.2 22.6Southern 18.7 18.6 17.9 18.8 17.2 (16.3) 18.1 17.9 23.0Western 19.7 20.1 19.4 19.1 18.5 (17.6) 19.3 19.2 24.3EducationNo education 17.1 17.4 16.9 16.6 16.6 16.0 16.9 16.8 21.7Primary 17.8 17.7 17.6 17.2 17.0 16.6 17.5 17.4 22.3Secondary or higher a 21.0 20.2 20.2 19.0 19.2 a 20.2 24.6Total 18.7 18.4 18.1 17.5 17.3 16.8 18.1 17.8 23.2––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Note: Figures in parentheses are based on 25-49 unweighted cases.aOmitted because less than 50 percent of the women married for the first time before the beginning of the age group6.4 AGE AT FIRST SEXUAL INTERCOURSEWhile age at first marriage is often used as a proxy for first exposure to intercourse, the twoevents do not necessarily occur at the same time. Women <strong>and</strong> men may engage in sexual relations prior tomarriage, especially if they are postponing the age at which they marry. In the <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong> Z<strong>DHS</strong>, women<strong>and</strong> men were asked how old they were when they first had sexual intercourse.Table 6.5 shows that the median age at first intercourse is just under 17 years for women <strong>and</strong>about 18 years for men. Almost 20 percent of women <strong>and</strong> men report that they had sexual intercoursebefore age 15. By age 18, two-thirds of women <strong>and</strong> about half of men have had sexual intercourse.Among women, the median age at first sex shows a slight increase among younger women, whichcorroborates the trend over time from 16.4 in 1996 to 16.8 in <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong>. Among men, the trend is lessclear. Data in Table 6.5 would indicate that age at first sex has been declining among younger men;however, the median age at first sex increased from 16.7 in 1996 to 18.0 in <strong>2001</strong>-<strong>2002</strong> among men age25-59.Other Determinants of Fertility │ 97

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