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GLOSSARY
Marriage – a voluntary union of a woman and a man for the purpose of creating a family, registered in the territorial offices of the Public Service Development Agency, a legal entity operating under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.
Mean age of spouses - Average age of persons when they get married for a given period, calculated as arithmetic mean of spouses’ ages at marriage.
Median age of population - Age that divides the population in two parts of equal size, that is, there are as many persons with ages above the median as there are with ages below the median.
Morbidity rate – a measure obtained by dividing new cases of morbidity by the average annual size of the resident population.