Vital Statistics - Births - 1995 - Sri Lanka

Abstract
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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.

Although birth and 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 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.

Births are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of residence of the mother.

Geographic coverage
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National coverage.

Analysis unit
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Individual Birth

Universe
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Records pertaining to Live births of Sri Lankan Nationals whose birth occurs in Sri Lanka

Kind of data
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Administrative records data [adm]

Mode of data collection
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Other [oth]

{'Abstract': '自1867年颁布民事登记法，赋予对出生、死亡、死产及婚姻等事件的登记以法律效力以来，生命重要事件的登记工作便已开始。根据法律规定，每一次出生必须在事件发生之日起42天内进行登记。尽管出生和死亡登记具有法律强制性，但仍有少数事件因各种原因而未被登记。1980年进行的调查旨在评估出生和死亡登记的完整性，结果显示，在任何给定时间内，约98.8%的出生和94.0%的死亡均已完成登记。出生登记地点为事件发生地，而非母亲居住地。

地理覆盖范围：全国。
分析单元：个人出生。
总体范围：有关在斯里兰卡出生的斯里兰卡国籍新生儿的相关记录。
数据类型：行政记录数据[adm]。
数据收集方式：其他[oth]。'}