Practice question · Estimate
Estimate the percentage of births in Spain that now take place outside marriage.
Estimate on a scale from 5 per cent (5) to 80 per cent (80).
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- The lesson gives it as a fraction of all births.
- Roughly one in two.
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50 (answers within ±6 count)
Why
About 50 per cent on recent INE figures, up from under 10 per cent in the early 1980s. The change is one of the fastest in Europe, and it happened without a corresponding collapse in couple formation: what shifted was the sequence, with childbearing no longer waiting on marriage.
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