{"doc_desc":{"title":"Vital Statistics - Births - 1991","idno":"DDI-LKA-RGD-RGB-1991-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Registrar General\u2019s Department","abbreviation":"RGD","affiliation":"Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-06-16","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( June 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-RGD-RGB-1991-v1.0","title":"Vital Statistics - Births - 1991","alt_title":"RGB - 1991"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Registrar General's Department","affiliation":"Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Divisional Secretariats","affiliation":"","role":"Data Collection"},{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""},{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""}],"copyright":"[C] 2008 Registrar General\u2019s Department","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Goverment of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Statistics Division","affiliation":"Registrar General\u2019s Department","email":"ddstat@rgd.gov.lk","uri":"www.rgd.gov.lk"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Administrative Records, Other (ad\/oth]","series_info":"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 live birth has to be registered within 42 days and death within 5 days from the date of occurrence.\nAlthough birth  registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons.\nBirths  are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of residence of the mother.."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-06-16","version_notes":"v1.0 - This is the first version of the microdata set created for the use of DPD for archiving purposes.\n \nWhen issuing the dataset to other institutions new versions should be created and the Version Notes DDI's updated accordingly."},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"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 live birth has to be registered within 42 days  from the date of occurrence.\n\nAlthough birth and death registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons. \n\nBy the survey conducted in 1980, to assess the completeness of birth and death registrations, it was found that about 98.8 per cent of births and 94.0 per cent of deaths are being registered at any given time.\n\nBirths are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of residence of the mother.","coll_dates":[{"start":"1991-01-01","end":"1991-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage.","analysis_unit":"Individual Birth","universe":"Records pertaining to Live births of Sri Lankan Nationals whose birth occurs in Sri Lanka","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The scope of the Registration of Birth 1991 include :\n     -District\n     -AGA Division\n     -Registrar's Division\n     -Month & Year\n     -Date of Birth\n     -If urban, assessment number, street and town\n     -If rural, Name of villahe\n     -AGA's Division\n     -District\n     -Whether outside division\n     -Whether in hospital\n     -Live birth order\n     -Distinguishing letters\n     -Race\n     -Age of mother in years\n     -Were parents married\n     -Whether Twin,triple & etc"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Registrars of Berths & Deaths","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Registrar General's Department "},{"name":"Additional District Registrar","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Registrar General's Department "},{"name":"Statistical Division - Registrar General Office","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Registrar General's Department "}],"coll_mode":["Other [oth]"],"research_instrument":"The Form used for the Registration of Births in 1991 is the same as that was used in the previous year.  All questions were printed in  Sinahala, Tamil and English. The questions were about :-\n\n     -District\n     -AGA Division\n     -Registrar's Division\n     -Month & Year\n     -Date of Birth\n     -If urban, assesment number, street and town\n     -If rural, Name of villahe\n     -AGA's Division\n     -District\n     -Whether outside division\n     -Whether in hospital\n     -Live birth order\n     -Distinguishing letters\n     -Race\n     -Age of mother in years\n     -Were parents married\n     -Whether Twin,triple & etc","coll_situation":"The Registrars of Births and Deaths attached to the Divisional Secretariat Offices send a monthly return of Births to the Additional District Registrars who in turn collect all such returns and send them to the Statistical Division of the Registrar General's Office for Data Processing purposes.","method_notes":"Data processing included the following steps. \n\n     1.  Accepting the filled birth return forms by the Statistical Division\n     2.  Do a visual check for completeness\n     3.  Coding of data\n     4.  Entry of data \n     5.  Run edit program for each District batch\n     6.  Produce error report \n     7.  Correction of errors on the report\n     8.  Change incorrect data using the corrected error report\n     9.  Re-run the edit program and repeat the error correction procedure\n   10.  Produce final tables on clean data with a backup of clean data."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"The degree of confidentiality of this microdata set is determined by the Access Authority. Please refer to the Access Authority for further details.","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"contact":[{"name":"Registrar General","affiliation":"Registrar General's Department ","email":"rg@rgd.gov.lk","uri":"www.rgd.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Registrar General's Department,Vital Statistics (Births) - 1991, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset ( April 2008 )\"","conditions":"Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.","disclaimer":"The Registrar General's Department  bears no responsibilty for any results or interpretations arising from the secondary use of data."}}},"schematype":"survey"}