Table 2 Distribution of consanguineous unions, total marriages, and IC-F across geographic location, mother tongue, and caste systems

 Sadiqabad

527

56.0

941

43.3

1.00

0.0342

 Rahim Yar Khan

377

63.0

598

27.5

1.34*

0.0386

 Khanpur

328

56.8

578

26.6

1.03

0.0342

 Liaquatpur

39

68.4

57

2.6

1.70

0.0367

 Total

1271

58.5

2174

100.0

0.0355

 Rural

844

60.7

1390

63.9

1.29*

0.0370

 Urban

427

54.5

784

36.1

1.00

0.0327

 Punjabi

499

45.2

1105

50.8

1.00

0.0278

 Saraiki

706

75.4

937

43.1

3.71*

0.0454

 Urdu

23

46.0

50

2.3

0.99

0.0275

 Others

43

52.4

82

3.8

1.66

0.0309

 Arain^a

239

39.0

613

28.2

1.00

0.0239

 Malik^b

67

77.9

86

4.0

5.52*

0.0458

 Arain^b

54

80.6

67

3.1

6.50*

0.0483

 Balouch^b

50

58.1

86

4.0

2.17*

0.0338

 Bhatti^b

37

74.0

50

2.3

4.45*

0.0441

 Jut^a

49

45.0

109

5.0

1.28

0.0288

 Khokhar^b

41

91.1

45

2.1

16.04*

0.0535

 Larr^b

37

84.1

44

2.0

8.27*

0.0526

 Malik^a

28

58.3

48

2.2

2.19*

0.0332

 Mughal^a

22

51.2

43

2.0

1.64

0.0334

 Rajput^a

72

53.7

134

6.2

1.82*

0.0332

 Sheikh^b

37

80.4

46

2.1

6.43*

0.0530