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will be dead before the following age; those persons who have reached a
certain age will have what probability of survival and death; how long is
the life expectancy in the future.

Rate of literate population aged 15 years and over reflects the
ability of reading and writing of the population, serves to assess the
development level of a country, region or locality.

This indicator is calculated as the rate between the number of
persons aged 15 years and over at time (t) who are literate (able to read,

write and understand a simple sentence in the national language, ethnic
or foreign language) and the total population aged 15 years and over at
that time.
Literate population aged 15 years
Rate of literate and over
population aged 15 years = × 100
and over (%) Total population aged 15 years
and over

Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM) reflects the average
number of single life years of a presumptive cohort that has been lived
single life before getting married for the first time, with the assumption
that this cohort’s proportion of single by age is the same as the one
collected at the intercensal time point.

LABOUR FORCE AND EMPLOYMENT

Labour force includes the employed persons aged 15 years and
over (currently working) and the unemployed persons during the
reference period (7 days prior to the time point of observation).

Employed population in the economy: This indicator reflects
number of persons aged 15 years and over who are employed in the

reference period (7 days prior the time point of observation).
Employed population in the economy are persons aged 15 years

and above in the reference period who are engaged in any activity

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