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Vital Statistics - Deaths - 1984

Sri Lanka, 1984
Reference ID
LKA-RGD-RGD-1984-v1.0
Producer(s)
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Identification

Survey ID Number
LKA-RGD-RGD-1984-v1.0
Title
Vital Statistics - Deaths - 1984
Country
Name Country code
Sri Lanka LKA
Study type
Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth]
Series Information
Registration of vital events commenced in 1867 with the enactment of civil registration laws which conferred the legal sanction for the registration of events namely, live births, deaths, still births and marriages. According to the law every death has to be registered within 5 days from the date of occurrence. Although death registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons.

[By the survey conducted in 1980 to assess the completeness of the registration of births and deaths, it was found that about 98.8 per cent of births and 94.0 per cent of deaths are being registered in Sri Lanka in any given period].

Deaths are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of deceased.
Abstract
Registration of vital events commenced in 1867 with the enactment of civil registration laws which conferred the legal sanction for the registration of events namely, live births, deaths, still births and marriages. According to the law every death has to be registered within 5 days from the date of occurrence. Although death registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons.

[By the survey conducted in 1980 to assess the completeness of the registration of births and deaths, it was found that about 98.8 per cent of births and 94.0 per cent of deaths are being registered in Sri Lanka in any given period].

Deaths are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of the deceased.]
Kind of Data
Administrative records data [adm]
Unit of Analysis
Death of individual

Version

Version Description
v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version for internal DPD use.
Version Date
2008-09-19

Scope

Notes
The scope of the Registration of Death 1984 include :
-District
-AGA Division
-Registrar's Division
-Month & Year
-Date of Death
-If urban, assessment number, street and town
-If rural, Name of village
-Revenue District
-Whether outside division
-Distinguishing letters
-Race
-Age at Death - in days
-Age at Death - in months
-Age at Death - in years
-Immediate Cause
-Antecedent and/or underlying cause
-Other contributory causes
Topics
Topic Vocabulary URI
DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14] CESSDA Link

Coverage

Geographic Coverage
National coverage.
Universe
Entire population of local individuals whose death has occured in Sri Lanka.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators
Name Affiliation
Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs
Producers
Name Role
Divisional Secretariats Data Collection
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Name Abbreviation
Goverment of Sri Lanka GOSL

Data Collection

Dates of Data Collection
Start End
1984-01-01 1984-12-31
Data Collection Mode
Other [oth]
Data Collection Notes
When a death of an individual occurs, the respondent of the death meets the Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed for the area where the death occurred and obtains the death certificate.

A copy of the death certificate is sent to the Divisional Secretariat Office along with the monthly return of deaths which includes the details of deaths occurred in a particular month.

The Additional District Registrars receive the returns from all Divisional Secretariat offices attached to them. The Additional District Registrars send these returns to the Statistical Division of the Registrar General's Office for data processing purposes
Data Collectors
Name Affiliation
Registrars of Berths & Deaths Registrar General's Department
Additional District Registrar Registrar General's Department
Statistical Division - Registrar General's Office Registrar General's Department

Data Processing

Other Processing
Data processing included the following steps.

1. Accepting the filled birth return forms by the Statistical Division
2. Do a visual check for completeness
3. Coding of data
4. Entry of data
5. Run edit program for each District batch
6. Produce error report
7. Correction of errors on the report
8. Change incorrect data using the corrected error report
9. Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure
10. Produce final tables on clean data with a backup of clean data.

Access policy

Contacts
Name Affiliation Email URL
Statstical Division Registrar General's Department ddstat@rgd.gov.lk www.rgd.gov.lk
Confidentiality
The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.
Access conditions
Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.
Citation requirements
"Registrar General's Department,Vital Statistics (Deaths) - 1984 Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (September 2008 )"
Access authority
Name Affiliation Email URL
Registrar General Registrar General's Department rg@rgd.gov.lk www.rgd.gov.lk

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer
The Department of Census and Statistics and the Registrar General's Department will bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of the data.
Copyright
(C) 1984, Registrar General's Department

Metadata production

DDI Document ID
DDI-LKA-RGD-RGD-1984-v1.0
Producers
Name Abbreviation Affiliation Role
Registrar General's Department RGD Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs Providing Metadata
Date of Metadata Production
2008-09-19
DDI Document version
Version 1.0 ( September 2008 ).
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