Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia

• Main Authors: Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100328; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17863
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study analyses nuptiality patterns in three Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan—over two decades preceding and one decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, using census and Demographic Health Survey data. Although marriage remained universal through the en...