{"doc_desc":{"title":"Vital Statistics - Deaths - 2003","idno":"DDI-LKA-RGD-RGD-2003-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Registrar General Department","abbreviation":"RGD","affiliation":"Ministray of Public Administration and Home Affairs","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-07-09","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( June 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-RGD-RGD-2003-v1.0","title":"Vital Statistics - Deaths - 2003","alt_title":"RGD - 2003"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Statistics Division, Registrar General Department","affiliation":"Ministray of Public Administration and Home Affairs"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"Divisional Secretariats","affiliation":"","role":"Data Collection"},{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""},{"name":"","affiliation":"","role":""}],"copyright":"(C) 2003, Registrar General Department","funding_agencies":[{"name":"Goverment of Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"GOSL","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Statstical Division","affiliation":"Registrar General Department","email":"rgstst@sltnet.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.\nAlthough death  registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons.\nThe survey conducted in 1980, to assess the completeness of births and deaths registration found that, about 98.8 per cent of births and 94.0 per cent of deaths are being registered.\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":"2008-07-09"},"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.\nAlthough death  registrations are compulsory by law, few events are missed and not registered for various reasons.\nThe survey conducted in 1980, to assess the completeness of births and deaths registration found that, about 98.8 per cent of births and 94.0 per cent of deaths are being registered.\nDeaths  are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of deceased.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2003-01-01","end":"2003-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage.","analysis_unit":"Death","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The scope of the Registration of Death 2003 include :\n     -District\n     -AGA Division\n     -Registrar's Division\n     -Month & Year\n     -Date of Death\n     -If urban, assesment 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 contributions"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Registrars of Berths & Deaths","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Data Collection"},{"name":"Additional District Registrar","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Data Collection"},{"name":"Statistical Division - Registrar General Office","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"Data Collection"}],"coll_mode":["Other [oth]"],"coll_situation":"Registrar's of births and deaths in the Divisional Secretariat Offices send return of birth forms to the Additional District Registrars. Additional District Registrar's collect all the forms and send these forms to the Statistical Division of the Registrar General Office.","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":"Department of Registrar General","email":"registrergen@sltnet.lk","uri":"www.rgd.gov.lk"}],"cit_req":"\"Registrar General Department,Vital Statistics (Deaths) - 2003 Version 1.0 of the public use dataset (June 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"}