Definition: Legitimation

Category: Social statistics

Formal vesting of a person with the same status and rights of a person born in wedlock, according to the laws of the country. 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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