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Illegitimate component

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Illegitimate component  (ILLEGITIMATE component)


Other replacement indices also are computed. For instance, the net reproduction rate is sometimes split into a legitimate component1 and an illegitimate component2. Again, a nuptial net reproduction rate3 has been computed, showing the number of legitimate daughters that will be born to a newly-born female if current rates of mortality, fertility, nuptiality and dissolution of marriage remain unchanged. Generally such rates are female rates, but it would be possible to compute analogous male rates.
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