![]() 5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by education of household headMetadataPeriod: Every four yearsYear: 2025 |
| METADATA |
| Indicator information |
| Definition and methodology |
| Data source type and data collection method |
| Notes |
| ID of global indicator |
| Metadata update |
| Global metadata |
| Indicator information | Top |
| Indicator | |
5.3.1 Marriage before age 15, by education of household head | |
| Global indicator name | |
5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18 | |
| Target | |
5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation | |
| Goal | |
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | |
| Definition and methodology | Top |
| Definition | |
Number of women aged 20-24 who were first married/in union before age 15 in relation to the total number of interviewed women aged 20-24. | |
| Methodological explanations | |
The indicator captures all formal and informal cohabiting unions. For comparability, age 18 is used as a standard across countries as the common age of majority, though the threshold age between childhood and adulthood varies across countries, as does the legal age at marriage. | |
| Method of calculation | |
Number of women aged 20-24 who were first married or in union before age 15 divided by the total number of women aged 20-24 in the population multiplied by 100. | |
| Unit of measure | |
% | |
| Available disaggregation | |
Education Level | |
| Territorial level | |
Serbia north, Serbia south | |
| Data source type and data collection method | Top |
| Data source | |
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) | |
| Periodicity of data collection | |
Every four years | |
| Notes | Top |
| ID of global indicator | Top |
C050301 | |
| Metadata update | Top |
| 2/6/2025 | |
| Global metadata | Top |
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-05-03-01.pdf | |