Ghana - Ghana annual statistical report on births and deaths- 2012, First Round

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Reference ID GHA-BDR-BDR-2012-V1.0
Year 2012
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Births and Deaths Registry - Government of Ghana
Sponsor(s) United Nations childrens Fund - Unicef - Technical and financial surpport
Plan Ghana - Plan - Financial surpport
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - Financial surpport
Government of Ghana - GOG - Technical and financial support
Collection(s)
Births and Deaths Registry (BDR)
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Overview
Identification
Country
Ghana
Title
Ghana annual statistical report on births and deaths- 2012

Subtitle
First Round

Translated Title
No translation

Study Type
Annual births data
Series Information
The total number of births registered by the Births and Deaths Registry for the period 2012 yielded 475,731.The figure represents a decrease of 4% less the 2011 figure of 493,872.Of the total number of births registered for the period under review, 243,943 representing 51% were males while 231,788 representing 49% were females.

ID Number
GHA-BDR-BDR-2012-V1.0
Version
Version Description
Version 1.0 (September,2014)

Production Date
2012-12-31
Notes
Births and Deaths data is stratified by sex and region, age, place of occurrence, age of mother and age at death. Registration of events take place at the registry or community level. Data files is aggregated.

Overview
Abstract
The objective of this statistical report is to inidicate the total number of births and deaths registered for the period 2012.

Registered births and deaths data for all the 10 regions were captured in this report.The results indicate that a total of 475731 births were registered representing 60 per cent coverage while a total of 54551 deaths were registered representing 21 per cent coverage.

Kind of Data
Event/transaction data [evn]

Units of Analysis
Individual births and death records

Scope
Notes
Birth Registration form

Section one: Particulars of child

Section two: Particulars of mother

Section three: Particulars of father

Section four: Particulars of informant

Section six: Registrars name

Section seven: Margin

Death Regitration form

Section one :Particulars of deceasd person

Section two: Death Identification particulars

Section three: Particulars of father

Section four: Particulars of informant

Section five: Registrar

Section six: Margin

Topics
TopicVocabularyURI
HEALTH [8] CESSDAhttp://www.nesstar.org/rdf/common
Coverage
Geographic Coverage
National

Universe
individual informant reporting the event for registration

Producers and Sponsors
Primary Investigator(s)
NameAffiliation
Births and Deaths Registry Government of Ghana
Other Producer(s)
NameAffiliationRole
John Hoppkins university research work on how to scale up births and deaths registration in some selected districts in the northern reigion
Funding
NameAbbreviationRole
United Nations childrens Fund UnicefTechnical and financial surpport
Plan Ghana PlanFinancial surpport
United Nations Population Fund UNFPAFinancial surpport
Government of Ghana GOGTechnical and financial support
Other Acknowledgements
NameAffiliationRole
Ministry of Health Government of Ghana
Metadata Production
Metadata Produced By
NameAbbreviationAffiliationRole
Births and Deaths RegistryBDRGovernment of GhanaMetadata Documentation
Date of Metadata Production
2014-09-12
DDI Document Version
Version 1.0 (September,2014)

DDI Document ID
DDI-GHA-BDR-BDR-2012-V1.0

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