{"doc_desc":{"title":"Vital Statistics - Marriages - 1975","idno":"DDI-LKA-RGD-RGM-1975-v1.0","producers":[{"name":"Registrar General\u2019s Department","abbreviation":"RGD","affiliation":"Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs","role":"Data Collection"}],"prod_date":"2008-08-13","version_statement":{"version":"Version 1.0 ( August 2008 )."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LKA-RGD-RGM-1975-v1.0","title":"Vital Statistics - Marriages - 1975","alt_title":"RGM - 1975"},"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":"Statistics 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":"The computerization of marriage statistics is a continuous process where the event by event data are collected on a monthly basis and the final outputs (reports) are produced annually for dissemination.  \n\nRegistration 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."},"version_statement":{"version":"v1.0: Full edited dataset, original version  for internal DPD use.","version_date":"2008-08-13"},"study_info":{"topics":[{"topic":"DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION [14]","vocab":"CESSDA","uri":"http:\/\/www.nesstar.org\/rdf\/common"}],"abstract":"Vital Statistics cover Births, Deaths, Still births and Marriages which are called vital events.  The source for the collection of data for the preparation of Vital statistics is the certificate issued to the respondent when the registration of the occurrence of the vital event is done. Maintaining Vital statistics is an Administrative record keeping operation and is a continuous process  where the event by event data are collected on a monthly basis and the final outputs (reports) are produced annually for dissemination.\nThe computerization of vital statistics came into being after the arrival of computers to the Department of Census and Statistics in 1960's. \n\nRegistration 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.","coll_dates":[{"start":"1975-01-01","end":"1975-12-31","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Sri Lanka","abbreviation":"LKA"}],"geog_coverage":"National coverage.","analysis_unit":"Each marriage registered within the month","universe":"Marriages and divorces recorded by the representatives of the Registrar Generals Office.","data_kind":"Administrative records data [adm]","notes":"The scope of the Registration of Marriage 1975 include :\n     -District\n     -Division\n     -Name of Registrar\n     -Month & Year\n     -Whether General, Kandyan or Muslim\n     -Registration Entry Number\n     -Village or Locality(Male)\n     -Race(Male)\n     -Whether Bachelor, Widower or Divorcee(Male)\n     -Age(Male)\n     -Was Register signed with a Mark or in Letters(Male)\n     -Village or Locality(Female)\n     -Race(Female)\n     -Whether Bachelor, Widower or Divorcee(Female)\n     -Age(Female)\n     -Was Register signed with a Mark or in Letters(Female)\n     -Remarks"},"method":{"data_collection":{"data_collectors":[{"name":"Registrars of Berths, Deaths & Marriages","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]"],"coll_situation":"A respondent from the general public reports  the event to a local representative - (a Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in the case of deaths and marriages or an officer in a public or private maternity home) and obtains a certificate from him. The Registrar\/officer  produces a monthly return from the vital event records (different formats for each type of event) and send it to the collection centre of the Additional District Registrar who in turn channels the returns to the Statistics 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 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 (Marriages) - 1975, Version 1.0 of the public use dataset ( August 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"}