Vital events of life
As a scientific discipline, Vital Statistics is a subfield of demography and the study & research of characteristics of the civilized population. The term “vital statistics'' is deployed to the individual determination of some vital events.
The birth rate is an example of vital statistics and an investigation of trends in birth rates is an example of an application in the domain of vital statistics. There are various examples of vital statistics such as death rates, or the number of marriages, human population, etc.
While reading this article, you will learn the meaning of vital statistics, types and uses of vital statistics, and a brief note over vital statistics system.
Vital Statistics
According to N.B. Ryder (Links to an external site.), vital statistics “give cumulative summaries for successive time periods of population movements like birth, death, migration, marriage and marital dissolution as well as demographic and other relevant characteristics of the individuals involved in these events.”
In simple words, Vital statistics, or vital events or vital records as they are known generally, have become an important resource for demographic data. It explicates statistical events such as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, etc.
Vital statistics involves:
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Quantities and rates of births,
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Important characteristics of births, such as births by sex, location and maternal age,
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Quantities and rates of deaths, and
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Deaths by essential characteristics such as age, sex, location and cause of death.
Vital statistics are the statistical yield under the civil registration system, and the information, involved within the individual civil registration records, is assembled in order to create vital statistics for the population.
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In most of the underdeveloped countries, the registration of birth, deaths, marriages, migration, etc is not conducted, especially people who live in rural regions, due to bulk illiteracy and ignorance.
In opposite to that, in most of the developing and developed, it has mandated to make registration of vital records like births, deaths, marriages, divorces, migrations, etc.
Common Definitions
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Live Birth: It is a full exclusion from its mother as a product of conception, heedless of the pregnancy duration, that after segregation breaths and devote the evidence of life (conduction of heartbeat, and pulse, or definite activities of voluntary muscles, etc,) whether or not placenta has been attached. Each product of such a birth is accounted for as live birth or live born.
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Marriage: It is considered as the permanent commitment of a man and women who are entered into a new life for the purpose of marriage and family life in accordance with the law.
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Death: It signifies the long-lasting disappearance of the complete evidence of life at any instant of time after live birth has taken place.
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Fetal Death: It indicates the death prior to the full exclusion of a product of conception from its mother, regardless of pregnancy duration. The death is signified with the facts and figures that after segregation, the fetus doesn’t breathe or exhibit any proof of life such as the execution of heartbeat, pulses, or activities of voluntary muscles.
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