Job stability, higher income and home ownership are key factors in correlation with higher rates of marriage and child birth, a government survey showed Tuesday. The Ministry of Data and Statistics said it has found such a trend through a cohort study on people born between 1983 and 1995, the first survey of its kind. The study was conducted over an eight year period from 2015 to see the correlation between economic and social status, and marriages and birth. The study showed that the marriage and birth rates were comparatively lower in younger generation than the older one. Some 32.4 percent of males born in 1988 were married at the age of 32, while 42.9 percent of those born in 1983 had tied a knot in the same age. For females, 45.3 percent of those born in 1989 were married at the age of 31, while 56.5 percent of those born in 1984 did so in the same age. In terms of birth rate, only 17.8 percent of the men born in 1988 had a child when they were 32 years old, while 27 percent of the men born in 1983 had a child at that age. Twenty-seven percent of the women born in 1989 had given birth