Mortality of stillborn infants and infants who die within 7 days of birth. Perinatal mortality rate The number of foetal deaths after 28 weeks of pregnancy (late foetal deaths) plus the number of deaths of infants under 7 days old per 1,000 live births and stillbirths.
The indicator that measures in which conditions generations are replaced. It is computed by establishing a ratio between the number of daughters and that of their mothers, independently from effects due to population structure. This calculation can be made by taking into account the mortality (net reproduction rate) or in the absence of mortality (crude reproduction rate). In practice this rate ...
A group of persons who experience the same demographic event (birth, marriage, birth of a first child, etc.) in the same year or period of time.
The legal status of a child at birth depends upon the marital status of its mother. A birth is "legitimate" if the parents are married. A child born outside marriage is "legitimated" when the mother marries.
Age that divides the population in two parts of equal size, that is, there are as many persons with ages above the median as there are with ages below the median.
The final legal dissolution of a marriage, involving the separation of husband and wife by judicial decree which confers on each the right to remarry under the laws of individual countries. Total divorce rate The total divorce rate indicates the number of divorces in a fictitious cohort of marriages whose divorce rates for each duration of marriage are the same as those observed in a given year. It ...
The civil solidarity pact, referred to as the "PACS" is "a contract concluded between two physical persons who have reached the age of majority, of different or the same gender, for the purposes of organizing their life in common". It was enacted by the law of 15 November 1999. It establishes rights and duties between the co-signatories in terms of material support, housing, inheritance, taxation and ...
Mortality of infants who are stillborn or die before the age of one year. Foeto-infant mortality rate Ratio of the number of infants who are stillborn or die before the age of one year to the total number of births (live and stillborn).
The total first marriage rate is the sum of age-specific first marriage rates. It may be quite different from the final proportion of persons who marry at least once in a birth cohort (the complement of permanent celibacy).
Gender is a notion used in the social sciences. It refers to the cultural dimension of sexual differentiation (such as the distribution of power or the breakdown of roles between men and women in a society), while the notion of "sex" reflects a universal biological reality.
