The dashboard of a Bentley Continental GTC car. A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel (IP), or fascia) is a control panel located directly ahead of a vehicle's driver, displaying instrumentation and controls for the vehicle's operation.
The mean age at childbearing is the mean age of mothers at the birth of their children if women were subject throughout their lives to the age-specific fertility rates observed in a given year. Method of computation.
What is a child? The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as everyone under 18 unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1989). The UK has ratified this convention.