Life Expectancy at selected ages for the period 1950-1997

In 2001, the share of active working women in the age period from 15 to 64 amounted to 63.5% (men 73.1%), and the share of employed women in the same period was 58.9% (men 68.7%).

The minimum age and contributory period are reduced by five years for women wage earners.

For persons of pre-retirement age, the period for benefit payments had been nine months; the new law reduced it to six months.

Registration of marriages, minimum age marriage, period of widowhood, pecuniary effects of marriage and divorce, succession etc. are some of the issues that were reformed.

The process of adjustment accounts for differences in survey coverage, age and reference periods used in individual countries.

The Office of Legal and Procurement Support would factor in an ageing period of up to three months to resolve claims before requiring any reporting to headquarters, unless: (a) there was an immediate threat of litigation or (b) the close of a financial year occurred earlier.

The work participation rate by age group in the period 1981-1996 is given below.

Under this article, only men and women who are living in wedlock or in an extra-marital community are entitled to the procedures, which meant removing the right that under the Health Measures in Exercising Freedom of Choice in Childbearing Act was held by every adult legally competent and healthy woman in the age period suitable for childbirth.

The Chairman said that the United Nations had begun the consideration of the peaceful uses of outer space at the very start of the space age, a period marked by the launch of the first satellite in October 1957.