Demographic Characteristics of Female Marriage Migrants: Study from Rural Rajshahi District in Bangladesh

The purpose of this paper is to study the demographic characteristics of the female marriage migrants of selected rural area in Rajshahi District, Bangladesh. For this, data was procured under the project entitled “Strengthening the Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development” sponsored by UNFPA. Logistic regression model has been employed to identify the relative risk of the factors of female marriage migrants. From logistic analysis it is observed that female migrants are more involved in rural businesses and others than that of housewives at their near houses.