التحليل الجغرافي لتباين سن الزواج الأول في مدينة بغداد الكبرى في آب 2009

Abstract EN

The study deals with the first marriage age of males and females in greater Baghdad city , according to the personal affairs courts records in August 2009.

The quantitative analysis has been done of the independent variables selection of a sample of the population of the city in the period (1991-2000) adopted from dissertation researcher in 2012.

The males average age of marriage is (26.1) years r, and female is (21.4) years, and the males and females together lowest rate in areas of Al- Sadr Court is (25.2) years and (20.4) years, respectively, and the highest in areas of Al-Karkh Court is (27.4) years and (22.1) years, respectively The quantitative analysis of the independent variables showed that the most closely associated with the average age of first marriage for males are the size of the family of the married father of six or more members, then the academic achievement of the father secondary school and below, and occupation of the Low-income father , which belong to the standard of living which is responsible to males on marriage, and female were independent variables most closely associated with the average age of first marriage are: the academic achievement of the parents secondary school and below, then the housewife profession, belonging to the cultural level, which has influential role in determining the age of marriage of females.

The geographical analysis explains the differential response viewing units of these influences, noting levels of viewing units according to standard grades independent in the relation of the variables reverse link between them and the average age of marriage of both males and females that areas of the court of al-Sadr was at the far end of the link (positive) regions were Al-karkh courts at the other end of the relationship (negative), hence the positive represented in areas marked by residential districts of popular character Adhering to the rural inheritance in respect of the age at first marriage, particularly in Al-Sadr City, while representing the negative in areas dominated by the characteristics of urbanization are the center of the Al- Karkh district and the district of Al Mansour.