Notes (Chapter 10)
- Manasrah, Najah. Early Marriage: Temporary Retreat in the March of
Palestinian Women. Al Kateb Journal. August 1989, pp. 24-31.
- This definition of the median age at first marriage is unusual in
that it considers the median age for the total birth cohort, and not only
women who marry. The reason for this is, as mentioned below, that we for
"young" cohorts do not know the number of women cohort who will
not marry at all.
- The median age has been calculated by linear interpolation, assuming
that marriages are evenly distributed over the year. This implies, for example,
that women who said they were 19 when they married, on average were 19.5
years old as measured by exact age.
- The table does not present any estimates for Arab Jerusalem due to
the low number of respondents in this group.
- Half of the women are not married yet.
- Moors, Annaleis. Countrywomen in the West Bank: A Study of the Gender
and Economic Division of Labor. Afaq Filastiniyya (Summer 1990), pp. 130-145.
- Hamdan, Nadia. Women and Inheritance in a West Bank Village: the Case
of Beit Furik. Unpublished Research Paper Women's Affairs Research Center,
Nablus (June 1991).
- Due to the low number of respondents, the results for West Bank camp
residents are left uncommented.
- 'Other' includes divorced, widowed, and separated women, as well as
women whose husbands are working abroad.
- See endnote 9.
- See endnote 9.
- See endnote 9.
- In this table "married" includes divorced, widowed, and
separated women, as well as women whose husbands are working abroad.
- Those who answer "not applicable" are excluded from the
table.
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