A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) by A. M. Ammar

Author:A. M. Ammar [Ammar, A. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367716738
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

Marital Conditions.

Because of the inadequacy of the Egyptian census and the lack of data bearing upon the family's composition and the nature of the household, our study has to be limited to shat is called the marital conditions of the people of Sharqiya, an aspect for which' more - though by no means precise - information is available. The ratios of marital relations in the populations of different districts of Sharqiya, of the whole province and of the whole country, as reoorded in the 1927 census are given in Tables XVII. With the exception of 1be town of Zagazig (Zagazig (B)) a relation seems to exist between the economic .conditions of the district and. the male marriage ratio. The more fertile districts give a comparatively higher ratio and vice versa (compare U. El-Qamh, Belbeis, Hihya and Zagazig M. on the one hand with Faqus and Kafr Saqr on the other).As regards the town of Zagazig, with its more urbanized conditions, the male marriage-ratio is naturally low.

An outstanding fact, which is revealed by the figures given, for married males and females, is the excess of married women over married men all over Sharqiya, with the exception of the town of Zagazig with its urban conditions. Such an excess seems to be the result of polygamy, which exists amongst the Moslems of Egypt especially where rural conditions prevail. The returns for Zagazig (b) on the contrary show an opposite tendency: i.e. predominance of married men. This can be attributed to the fact that a great number of married men, who come to work in the town, usually leave their wives at home. It may also indicate a comparatively lower frequency of polygamous marriages,a feature

TABLE XVII MARITAL CONDITIONS OF THE POPULATIONS OF DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF SHARQIYA, 1927.(73) MALS FEMALE

District Never Married(74) Married Divorced Widowed Not Stated Never Married(74) Married Divorced Widowed Not Stated

Belbeis. 566.2 409.8 8.9 13.9 1.1 426.6 415.2 17.3 139.9 1.0

Faqus. 620.3 355.6 8.5 13.3 2.3 482.5 378.0 15.0 123.9 0.6

Hihya. 591.5 383.5 11.1 12.7 1.2 455.4 387.9 19.9 135.4 1.5

Kafr Saqr. 612.3 366.7 7.9 11.4 1.7 466.6 380.3 17.7 133.9 1.5

M.El-Qamh. 565.4 408.8 9.4 15.1 1.4 440.4 413.4 16.5 128.6 1.1

Zagazig (B.) 594.1 376.2 9.1 17.2 3.4 476.6 389.8 21.7 108.6 3.3

" (K.) 590.0 384.8 9.7 14.1 1.4 448.6 389.2 I6.4 144.5 1.3

Sharqiya. 590.9 384.4 9.3 13.8 1.6 454.1 393.8 17.2 133.7 1.2

Whole Egypt. 578.0 396.0 9.0 15.0 2.0 450.0 410.0 17.0 122.0 1.0

(73) Calculated from figures given in the 1927 Census, Sees-Population Census of Egypt, 1927. Part I. pp. 65.

(74) This is a translation of a term used in the Egyptian Census for all individuals who have not yet spouses. It includes young people who may marry as well as older people who may never marry

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