Vital Events Reference Tables 2008
Vital Events Reference Tables 2008
Section 3: Births
The presumption in law in relation to the registration of births is that the husband of a married woman is the father of her child unless proven otherwise. When parents are not married to each other the mother is the primary informant of the birth and the father's name can only be entered in the register if (a) they register the birth jointly; (b) a court decree is produced declaring the person to be the father or (c) there is produced to the registrar at the time of registration a statutory declaration signed by one parent together with a declaration signed by the other parent in the registrar's presence. A father's name can be added to the register at any time after the birth using (b) or (c) above.
The term married parents refers to parents who are married to each other and the term unmarried parents refers to parents who are unmarried or married but not to each other.
The General Fertility Rate (GFR) is the number of births per women of child-bearing age (15-44).
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the average number of children that would be born to a cohort of women who experienced, throughout their childbearing years, the fertility rates of the calendar year in question.
The Age Specific Fertility Rate (ASFR) is the number of births per individual for a specific age during a specified time.
The gross reproduction rate is the average number of live daughters that would be born to a cohort of women who experienced, throughout their childbearing years, the fertility rates of the calendar year in question. And the net reproduction rate is the average number of these live daughters that, subject to the mortality rates of the calendar year in question, would survive to the mothers' age at the time of birth.
A cohort is a well-defined group of people who have had a common experience or exposure who are observed through time. For example, the birth cohort of 1900 refers to people born in that year.
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Table 3.1 |
Live births, numbers and percentages, by age of mother and marital status of parents, Scotland, 1946 to 2008 |
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Table 3.2 |
Live births, numbers and percentages, by marital status of parents and type of registration, Scotland, 1974 to 2008 (Excel CSV PDF) |
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Table 3.3 |
Live births outside marriage, numbers and percentages, age of mother and type of registration, Scotland, 1995 to 2008 (Excel CSV PDF) |
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Table 3.4 |
Birth rate and gross and net reproduction rates, Scotland, 1971 to 2008 |
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Table 3.5 |
Fertility rates by age of mother and marital status of parents, Scotland, 1971 to 2008 (Revised September 2010) (Excel CSV PDF) |
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Table 3.6 |
Age-specific birth rates, per 1,000 female population, Scotland, 1951 to 2008 |
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Table 3.7a |
Cumulative fertility, by female birth cohort and selected age, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.7b |
Cumulative fertility, for selected birth cohorts, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.8 |
Live births, numbers and fertility rates by marital status of parents, type of registration and administrative area, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.9 |
Live births, by country of birth of mother and administrative area, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.10 |
Live births, country of birth of mother by country of birth of father, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.11 |
Live births, stillbirths and maternities, by sex of child, marital status of parents and age of mother, Scotland, 2008 |
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Table 3.12 |
Live birth, stillbirth and maternity rates per 1,000 women, by sex of child, marital status of parents and age of mother, Scotland, 2008 (Revised September 2010) |
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Table 3.13 |
Live births by country of birth of mother, Scotland, 1998, 2003, 2006 to 2008 |
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Table 3.14 |
Live births, stillbirths and maternities, by sex of child, marital status of parents and age of mother, Scotland and administrative areas, 2008 |
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Table 3.15 |
Live births, numbers by age of mother and age of father, and the average ages of mothers and fathers, Scotland, 2008 |