The act of legitimizing a child born outside marriage. A child is legitimized when its parents marry or, if marriage is impossible, by a court decision. In France, a child born outside marriage and not recognized by its biological father may also be legitimized when its mother marries a man who is not the biological father, provided he has recognized ...
The act of declaring oneself to be the father or mother of a child born outside marriage. A child born outside marriage may be recognized before, after or at the time of birth. A child may be recognized jointly by both parents, by the father alone or the mother alone. The same child may be recognized several times in succession. When ...
In France, the term applies to the increase in the birth rate after 1945 and up to the mid-70’s.
Group of people related by birth, marriage or adoption. A family is a group of people belonging to a single household. For the census, a family comprises a maximum of two successive generations: a couple with or without children or a single-parent family. The extended family also includes uncles and aunts, grandparents, cousins and nephews, and grandchildren.
Average number of years a group of individuals can expect to live. Life expectancy at birth (or at age 0) represents the mean length of life – i.e. the mean age at death – of a synthetic cohort exposed at each age to the mortality patterns of a given year. It is a measure of mortality that is independent of the ...
The maximum age that human beings could reach under optimum conditions.Estimated at 100 years by Buffon at the end of the 18th century, maximum life span has since been extended to 105, 110, 115 years, etc., rising each time the previous limit is exceeded. The record is held by a Frenchwoman, Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age ...
Ratio between the number of males and the number of females, expressed as the number of males per 100 females. At birth, the sex ratio is 105 boys for 100 girls. Since male mortality is generally higher than female mortality, the sex ratio decreases with age, and the proportion of women overtakes that of men. In France, there are more women ...
All individuals born during a specified period, generally a calendar year.
The average number of children born to women belonging to the same cohort once they have reached the end of their reproductive life (in practice at the age of 50). It is the sum of the age-specific fertility rates of a cohort. Synonym : Lifetime fertility
The ratio of events having occurred in a population during a year to the number of persons in a population in the middle of the year. When the events are observed over a period shorter or longer than a year, their number is multiplied or divided by the appropriate factor so as to preserve the rate’s annual dimension. A rate may refer to all of ...
