EDUCATION AND ASSORTATIVE MARRIAGE IN NORTHERN AND URBAN SUDAN - 1945-79

This study examines the extent of assortative mating for education in Northern Sudan and urban Khartoum. More males than females were found at higher levels of education. Increasingly, people tend to marry pers ons of equal educational level, but the unequal educational opportunit ies for males and females have led to the emergence of educational exo gamy in which members of different educational levels are more likely to marry from the adjacent educational category than from distant cate gories. The increasing level of education for both sexes, and especial ly for females, may in part explain the rising trend in age at marriag e.