Transcript By T V RAMAN Deputy Director General Central Statistics Office Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation Government of India.

By
T V RAMAN
Deputy Director General
Central Statistics Office
Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation
Government of India
Introduction & Background
 Primary sources for Vital Statistics:
 Civil Registration System (CRS)
 Demographic Sample Surveys
 Sample Registration System (SRS)
 Medical Certification of Cause of Death (MCCD), an
integral part of CRS
 Office of the Registrar General, India (ORGI)-
responsible for unification & coordination of Civil
Registration activities
 Primary uses of Vital Statistics in India
Introduction & Background(Contd.)
 RBD Act, 1969 – performance; registration &
infrastructural bottlenecks
 Remedial Measures taken/proposed
 SRS – a snapshot view
 Limitations in utilisation of administrative records for
vital statistics in India
Civil Registration System (CRS)
 Definition
 Objectives of CRS in India
 Two fold objectives
 Providing identity to a child
 Registration- an essential public utility service provided
by the Government
 Generation of Demographic data by CRS
 Tools for local level monitoring, population growth &
effects of policy interventions
RBD Act 1969
 Enactment
 Unifying & Coordinating role of ORGI
 Chief Registrars of Births & Deaths
 Salient Features of the Act
RBD Act 1969 (Contd.)
 Statistical Reporting System
 Annual Reports at National level
 Determination of Implementation Performance of
States
 Level of reporting from Regn.Centres
 Level of Regn. (LOR)
 Statistical Reports
 Causes of Low Regn.
 Measures taken to improve CRS
Medical Certification of Cause of
Death (MCCD)
 Importance for Public Health Planners
 Forms prescribed for Reporting by Hospitals &
Individuals
 Current levels of implementation of international
recommendations in India
 Classification of Causes of Deaths, according to
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
 Review of Status & Functioning of MCCD in States/U
Ts and improvement measures
Sample Registration System (SRS)
 Genesis of SRS in India
 Objectives of SRS
 Dual Record System
 Structure of SRS
 Baseline Survey
 Continuous Enumeration
 Half Yearly Survey
 Matching
Sample Registration System (contd.)
 Field Verification of unmatched & partially matched
events
 Information collected in SRS
 Baseline Survey Forms
 Continuous Enumeration Forms
 Half Yearly Survey Forms
 Compilation/Tabulation Forms
 Processing of Forms
Thank You