Vital Statistics - Deaths - 2003 - 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 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.
The 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.
Deaths are registered at the place of occurrence and not in the area of deceased.

Geographic coverage
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National coverage.

Analysis unit
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Death

Kind of data
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Administrative records data [adm]

Mode of data collection
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Other [oth]

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