Civil unrest and the current profile of consanguineous marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan

Authors/Creators

Aftab A. Sthanadar
Alan H. Bittles, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Muhammad Zahid

Abstract

Summary Information on the current prevalence and types of consanguineous marriages in Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK), Pakistan, was collected from 1192 rural couples. Some 66.4% of marriages were between couples related as second cousins or closer (F≥0.0156), equivalent to a mean coefficient of inbreeding (α) of 0.0338. The data suggest that the prevalence of consanguineous unions in Malakand has been increasing during the last decade, in response to the high levels of violence across KPK.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

1-1-2014

Faculty

Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

School

School of Medical Sciences

RAS ID

18163

Comments

Sthanadar A.A., Bittles A.H., Zahid M. (2014). Civil unrest and the current profile of consanguineous marriage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Journal of Biosocial Science, 46(5), 698-701. Available here

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