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Using data from the 1997 Community and Family Survey conducted in Southern Ethiopia, we analyzed the factors associated with marriage arrangements and family formation patterns and tried to investigate their relationship with some cultural and socioeconomic attributes. Specifically, determinants of, and differentials in, the pattern of entry into marriage, stability of first marriages, mate selection criteria for daughters, and factors associated with polygamous marriages in five different ethnic groups are the focus of the paper. 1,931 ever-married women were included in the analysis. Of these, 62% were married before age 18; about 15% were not in their first marriages at the time of the survey; and more than 27% of the currently married women were living in polygamous marriage arrangements. Differentials in patterns of marriage by ethnic group are not that obvious and are at times inconsistent. Dissolution of first marriage is strongly associated with factors such as: early age at first marriage, extended family structure, and household's poor economic status. Polygamous marriages are found to be strongly associated with household's economic status or religious affiliation.

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This article presents a multilevel analysis of rural out-migration in Ethiopia over the 1984–1994 period. Using a recent household survey carried out in the drought prone rural areas of Ethiopia, discrete-time hazard models are used to examine the impact of individual, household and community factors on migration. Incorporating a life-course and the "new economics of migration" perspectives, our findings suggest that rural out-migration in these areas can be viewed as a function of individual, household and community characteristics. We find that mobility of people for schooling in the impoverished rural communities is minimal. Migration of both sexes was possible mainly through marriage, although females tend to depart their residences more than males. Our findings also reveal substantial period effects on out-migration trends.

This study examines the association between a household's degree of vulnerability to food crisis and the incidence of deaths using primary survey data carried out to look at the demographic consequences of drought and famine in the drought-prone areas of northern Ethiopia. Retrospective data on the occurrences of deaths within a household were collected for the period 1984 to 1994. Consistent with previous studies, the findings confirm that mortality was clustered among the age groups 1–4 and 5–9 and varied considerably by famine and non-famine years. Enormous variation in incidence of deaths was also observed by region, ethnicity and religion. Most importantly, the analysis provides substantial evidence that the level of household vulnerability to food crisis is strongly related to the number of hunger-related deaths reported in a household.