{"doc_desc":{"title":"Vital Statistics - Deaths - 1979","idno":"DDI-LKA-RGD-RGD-1979-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Registrar General's Department","abbreviation":"RGD","affiliation":"Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs","role":"Providing Metadata"}],"prod_date":"2008-09-05","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( September 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-RGD-RGD-1979-v1.0","title":"Vital Statistics - Deaths - 1979","alt_title":"RGD - 1979"},"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's Department","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Goverment of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Statstical Division","affiliation":"Registrar General's 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 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. \n\n[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]. \n\nDeaths  are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of deceased."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-09-05"},"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 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.\n\n[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]. \n\nDeaths  are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of the deceased.]","coll_dates":[{"start":"1979-01-01","end":"1979-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage.","analysis_unit":"Death of individual","universe":"Entire population of local individuals whose death has occured in Sri Lanka.","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The scope of the Registration of Death 1979 include :\n     -District\n     -AGA Division\n     -Registrar's Division\n     -Month & Year\n     -Date of Death\n     -If urban, assessment number, street and town\n     -If rural, Name of village\n     -Revenue District\n     -Whether outside division\n     -Distinguishing letters\n     -Race\n     -Age at Death - in days\n     -Age at Death - in months\n     -Age at Death - in years\n     -Immediate Cause\n     -Antecedent and\/or underlying cause\n     -Other contributory causes"},"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's Office","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Registrar General's Department"}],"coll_mode":["Other [oth]"],"coll_situation":"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. \n\nA 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. \n\nThe 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","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 (Deaths) - 1979 Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (September 2008 )\"","conditions":"Please contact the Access Authority for Access Terms and Conditions.","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."}}},"schematype":"survey"}