Table 2.

Demographic associations with age at marriage: multivariate linear regression individual level analysis. N = 1031

	Coef	SE	P
Age difference husband-wife	−1.22	0.15	0.00
Age difference husband-wife quadratic	0.01	0.00	0.00
Wife choose husband	−0.20	0.12	0.09
Education Wife	0.17	0.05	0.00
Wife agricultural work	−0.86	0.11	0.00
Polygamous	1.15	0.18	0.00
Education Husband	−0.03	0.06	0.58
Household assets	0.10	0.06	0.08
Food security	0.03	0.13	0.79
Extended family	0.15	0.14	0.29
Qur’anic education Husband	−0.14	0.13	0.26
Qur’anic education Wife	0.10	0.14	0.47
Tribe Hausa (ref)
Tribe Zarma	0.39	0.13	0.00

Dependent variable = wife’s age at marriage