Definition: Born out of wedlock

Category: Social statistics

A characteristic of a live-born infant or dead foetus whose mother and father were not legally married at the time of delivery. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_84_EN.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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