The licence of the first human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) has important implications for the most appropriate age for a mandatory immunization. In this paper data taken from a recent study show that more than 10% of the Italian women report having already had a sexual intercourse by the age of 15. There is thus sufficient evidence to recommend administration of the HPV vaccine to all girls by...

Using data from two surveys in three counties where the prevalence of uxorilocal marriage differs greatly, this paper analyzes the effects of marriage form, individual, family and social factors on age at first marriage and spousal age difference. The results show that, under the Chinese patrilineal joint family system, compared with the dominant virilocal marriage form, uxorilocal marriage sig...

This paper aims to investigate the main socio­economic determinants of female age at first marriage in Chuadanga dis­ trict, Bangladesh, over the year 2005, and attempts to find some explanations for the differences in the age at marriage among socio­ economic characteristics. The findings of the multiple classification analysis (MCA) suggest that among all the variables analyzed in...