Vital registration are statistics on live births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces. The most common way of collecting information on these events is through vital registration, an administrative system used by governments to record vital events which occur in their populations. Efforts to improve the quality of vital statistics will therefore be closely related to the development of vital registration systems in countries.
Vital registration, as defined by the United Nations, is the” continuous, permanent, compulsory, and universal recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events (livebirths, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces) and other civil status events pertaining to the population as provided by decree, law or regulation, in accordance with the legal requirements in each country.”
There are many factors affecting the completeness of vital statistics in Nepal.
1. Lack of awareness to vital registration
2. Organizational Problem
3. lack of trained and skilled full time personnel
4. Economic Problem
5. Adverse geographical condition
6. Administrative Problem
Uses of Vital Statistics
1. Vital Statistics is used for various purpose. It is used to analyse birth rate, death rate,marriage rate, rate of natural increase and population dynamics.
2. To lunch various programs like general health service, medical research, family planning.
3. It also helps to provide information needed for settlement, education, social security and insurance like administrative planning.
4. It keeps the record of important events of life so it is useful for verification of kins, relations with family, to take citizenship certificate, to admit children to schools etc.
5. to make various laws this statistics is used.
Limitations of Vital Statistics 1. Since vital registration is recorded for administrative purpose, it is difficult to get enough information about population studies.
2. Since all the life events are not registered, it is not considered as the reliable medium.
3. Publication and use of vital statistics on time is not done, so it is not of any use.
4.Only by the study of vital statistics, all the population of the county cannot be determined.
Vital registration, as defined by the United Nations, is the” continuous, permanent, compulsory, and universal recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events (livebirths, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorces) and other civil status events pertaining to the population as provided by decree, law or regulation, in accordance with the legal requirements in each country.”
There are many factors affecting the completeness of vital statistics in Nepal.
1. Lack of awareness to vital registration
2. Organizational Problem
3. lack of trained and skilled full time personnel
4. Economic Problem
5. Adverse geographical condition
6. Administrative Problem
Uses of Vital Statistics
1. Vital Statistics is used for various purpose. It is used to analyse birth rate, death rate,marriage rate, rate of natural increase and population dynamics.
2. To lunch various programs like general health service, medical research, family planning.
3. It also helps to provide information needed for settlement, education, social security and insurance like administrative planning.
4. It keeps the record of important events of life so it is useful for verification of kins, relations with family, to take citizenship certificate, to admit children to schools etc.
5. to make various laws this statistics is used.
Limitations of Vital Statistics 1. Since vital registration is recorded for administrative purpose, it is difficult to get enough information about population studies.
2. Since all the life events are not registered, it is not considered as the reliable medium.
3. Publication and use of vital statistics on time is not done, so it is not of any use.
4.Only by the study of vital statistics, all the population of the county cannot be determined.
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