• DOI:10.2307/353595
Corpus ID: 143341230

Modernization and consanguineous marriage in Iran.

@article{Givens1994ModernizationAC,
  title={Modernization and consanguineous marriage in Iran.},
  author={Benjamin P. Givens and C. Hirschman},
  journal={Journal of Marriage and Family},
  year={1994},
  volume={56},
  pages={820-834}
}

Benjamin P. Givens, C. Hirschman

Published 1994

Psychology

Journal of Marriage and Family

A declining trend in consanguineous marriage over time and negative relationships between consanguinity and measures of social status were hypothesized. The 1976-77 Iran Fertility Survey (IFS) consisted of a household survey and a survey of individual ever-married women 15-50 years old. Using a sampling frame from the 1976 Census IFS households were selected using a multistage probability sample designed to represent the entire country. From the sample of 5730 IFS households a sample of 4667… CONTINUE READING

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