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Table 8 Current and Retrospective mean age at marriage, mean age of conception and mean age of schooling of the respondents and elder sibling*

From: Effectiveness of a community based intervention to delay early marriage, early pregnancy and improve school retention among adolescents in India

 

Males

Females

Total

Mean age at marriage

18.63

16.29

17.03

Mean age at marriage of older sibling

17.59

15.37

15.83

Age at first conception

18.39

 

Age at fist conception of older sibling

 

17.54

 

Mean years of schooling

7.95

7.81

7.93

Mean years of schooling of older sibling

6.72

6.19

6.39

  1. *The above figures are obtained from the endline reports of this project