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The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998

Table 1B3 Live births and fertility rates, 1997

Council area	Estimated female population aged 15-44	Live births
		Numbers			Rates
		All live births	To married parents	To unmarried parents	All live births per 1000 women aged 15-44	Percentage to unmarried parents
Scotland	2,205,146	59,440	37,052	22,388	54.3	37.7
Aberdeen City	100,603	2,366	1,485	881	48.4	37.2
Aberdeenshire	96,571	2,594	1,919	675	54.4	26.0
Angus	44,143	1,236	802	434	57.0	35.1
Argyll and Bute	35,332	948	625	323	56.5	34.1
Clackmannanshire	20,436	570	331	239	56.5	41.9
Dumfries and Galloway	55,602	1,568	1,038	530	56.6	33.8
Dundee City	63,089	1,732	841	891	54.9	51.4
East Ayrshire	49,790	1,381	829	552	55.3	40.0
East Dunbartonshire	46,826	1,169	942	227	50.5	19.4
East Lothian	36,252	1,085	716	369	60.3	34.0
East Renfrewshire	36,862	1,039	833	206	56.8	19.8
Edinburgh City	213,827	5,110	3,354	1,756	48.5	34.4
Eilean Siar¹	10,714	252	202	50	49.3	19.8
Falkirk	61,157	1,639	1,050	589	53.6	35.9
Fife	145,738	3,824	2,350	1,474	52.8	38.5
Glasgow	284,668	7,609	3,748	3,861	53.2	50.7
Highland	83,233	2,443	1,605	838	59.9	34.3
Inverclyde	35,852	980	554	426	54.0	43.5
Midlothian	34,374	942	615	327	55.7	34.7
Moray	35,952	1,084	805	279	63.5	25.7
North Ayrshire	58,159	1,636	944	692	56.1	42.3
North Lanarkshire	144,472	4,090	2,453	1,637	56.9	40.0
Orkney Islands	7,645	224	165	59	60.3	26.3
Perth and Kinross	51,763	1,436	981	455	55.2	31.7
Renfewshire	76,369	2,194	1,349	845	57.3	38.5
Scottish Borders	40,337	1,132	766	366	56.2	32.3
Shetland Islands	9,813	286	176	110	61.5	38.5
South Ayrshire	45,322	1,150	724	426	50.5	37.0
South Lanarkshire	133,449	3,560	2,350	1,210	53.4	34.0
Stirling	35,769	969	641	328	54.2	33.8
West Dunbartonshire	41,185	1,157	616	541	56.0	46.8
West Lothian	69,842	2,035	1,243	792	58.4	38.9

Source: General Register Office (Scotland)

¹ Formerly Western Isles.