Acceptance of polygamy (0=no; 1=yes) by Country

most of the once with a value of 1 have strong islamic cultural influences.

In countries where ploygamy is acceptable, it would be interesting to see where it is most commonly practiced - is it something that takes place countrywide, or only in more rural areas?

Came across an interesting thesis when I was digging around with some applicability... Even as far back as the late 60s, polygamy skewed to rural areas (where husbands would take on many wives in the country and leave home regularly to seek work/income in urban environments).

Since the thesis I found (see here, is about AIDS and sexual practices in Africa (definitely applicable, see above), I think it might be interesting to scrounge up a graph on AIDS incidences in binary true countries for a time-lapse comparison (1980s, 1990s, 2000s). Not saying there's a direct correlation, but religion does play a large part in sexual practices and acceptability levels of various trends (principally because it tends to play a large part in a given country's social and societal mores).

I'm curious how more Christianity-skewed cultures (note I said cultures, not religions) and more Islamic-skewed cultures (ibid) stack up to one another in the acceptability rate of polygamy and incidence of AIDS. These sorts of questions could definitely tread some very dangerous ground, though, if people were to take things out of context.

I forgot that hrefs don't post in comments. The link is here: http://etd.rau.ac.za/theses...