Data Sheet 3_A qualitative social network analysis of decision-making around child marriag

20 interviews with adolescent girls married before 18 and their social network members provide insights into marriage decision-making in Bangladesh. The study, authored by Anja Zinke-Allmang and last updated in May 2026, includes participant-generated social network maps. Findings indicate parents are central decision-makers, with timing influenced by perceptions of a girl's readiness and household economic conditions.

Use Cases

• Modeling social influence and decision-making pathways based on described familial and social network structures.
• Analyzing qualitative themes like 'honour' and 'economic conditions' mentioned as drivers for marriage timing.
• Training NLP models on thematic codes extracted from interview transcripts about perceptions of girls' readiness.
• Comparing network centrality roles, such as fathers as 'final decision-makers' and mothers as 'coordinators'.

Strengths

• Includes qualitative data from 20 participants across three villages, providing depth on a specific social issue.
• Data collection method is clearly described as semi-structured in-depth interviews and social network mapping.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which limits suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• The dataset is very small at 81.3 KB, suggesting limited scope, likely containing summary documents rather than raw interview data.
• The primary file format is PDF, which may require manual extraction or conversion for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Qualitative social network analysis involving semi-structured interviews and participant-generated network maps.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 05:30:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Three villages in Bangladesh