Dan Neville
Question:646 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the percentage of children born to single mothers in each of the years 1999 to 2002, inclusive. [1293/03]
Written Answers. - Departmental Statistics.
Data on births are compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the annual and quarterly reports on vital statistics. The latest period for which data are available is January to September 2002. These figures are set out in the following table in addition to figures for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Births Outside Marriage as a
Percentage of Total Births, 1999 to 2002
|
Year |
Percentage |
|
1999 |
31.1 |
|
2000 |
31.5 |
|
2001* |
31.2 |
|
January to September 2002* |
31.4 |
*Provisional data based on year of registration.
Source: Central Statistics Office.
Dan Neville
Question:647 Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Health and Children the marriage rate per 100,000 for 1970 and 2002 or the most recent annual statistic. [1294/03]
Data on marriages is compiled by the Central Statistics Office and published in the annual and quarterly reports on vital statistics. The latest year for which data are available is 2001. The marriage rates per 100,000 population for 1970 and 2001 were 704.4 and 501.3 respectively. The 2001 rate is provisional based on year of registration.