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(ANSAmed) - ALGIERS, SEPTEMBER 20 - The number of marriages between blood relatives in Algeria is still high, at an average of 38.31%, with the highest rate 88% in Tebessa (southern-eastern Algeria), a National Foundation for Promotion of Health and Development Research (FOREM) survey found. The survey was carried out by students in medicine in 12 wilayas (provinces) of the country between November 2006 and April 2007. From the questioned families, 47% have less than three children, 37% between four and seven and 17% have more than seven children. According to the survey, in Algiers the consanguinity rate is 29.5%, while the Oran province (400km west from Algiers) is the one with the lowest rate of consanguinity, at 18.5%. After Tebessa, among the regions where the marriage between members of the same family is still of common use, there are the Ghardaia Oasis, 600km south from Algiers, with 56%, but also many cities of Kabylie, such as Bejaia (250km east from the capital) with 50.6%, Boumerdes and Bouira (eastern Algeria) with some 42%. In the other Arab countries the consanguinity level is also very high: 50% in Saudi Arabia, 54% in Kuwait, 55% in Jordan, 38% in Oman, 19,8% in Morocco. (ANSAmed).