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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Illegitimate component

Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English vol.
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Illegitimate component  (ILLEGITIMATE component)


Other replacement indices are also computed. For instance, the net reproduction rate is sometimes split into a legitimate component 1 and an illegitimate component 2. Again, a nuptial reproduction rate 3 has been computed, showing the number of legitimate daughters that will be born to a newly-born female if current rates of mortality, fertility, nuptiality and dissolution of marriage remain unchanged. Generally such rates are for females, but it would be possible to compute analogous rates for males. More...