Definition: Birth rate

Category: Business demography

The birth rate of a given reference period (usually one calendar year) is the number of births as a percentage of the population of active enterprises. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-RA-07-010-EN.pdf
Source:
Eurostat and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), "Eurostat - OECD Manual on Business Demography Statistics (Edition 2007)", Methodologies and Working Papers, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2007
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