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Vital Statistics

Vital statistics are data collected about vital events like births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. They are important for understanding population changes and informing decisions in areas like healthcare, business, and government planning. Vital statistics data comes primarily from census and registration systems. It is used for many purposes including legal documentation, monitoring population growth rates, aiding businesses in production planning, and informing insurance and medical research. Standardized death rates allow comparisons of mortality between populations by adjusting for differences in age distribution.

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Vital Statistics

Vital statistics are data collected about vital events like births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. They are important for understanding population changes and informing decisions in areas like healthcare, business, and government planning. Vital statistics data comes primarily from census and registration systems. It is used for many purposes including legal documentation, monitoring population growth rates, aiding businesses in production planning, and informing insurance and medical research. Standardized death rates allow comparisons of mortality between populations by adjusting for differences in age distribution.

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VITAL STATISTICS

Meaning Of Vital Statistics: There are some factors which causes changes in the size and composition of human population e.g. birth ads and death takes away some members of the population. Such factors are called Vital Event and they include births, deaths, migrations, marriages, divorces, sickness, adoptions, legitimation, etc. the collection, presentation and analysis of vital events constitutes Vital Statistics. The term Vital Statistics may also be defined as the data systematically collected and compiled in numerical form, relating to or derived from records of vital events. Vital Statistics thus includes the whole study of man, and throws light on various social and medical problems. Sources of Data: There are two traditional sources of data: 1) The Census 2) The Registration System. Although the two sources are quite distinct, they are often confused in public mind. Vital Statistics can be obtained from the census while the composition of the population can be determined from a registration system. Both types of information can also be obtained through special surveys have made the work of the data collection far more flexible. Uses of Vital Statistics: Vital Statistics is an important branch of Statistics. It deals with events which are very important in human life. Some of its important uses are given below: Records of births, deaths, marriages and divorces etc. re of immense use of the individuals. Death, medical and health certificates, marriage registration copies etc. have legal values and are often needed by the individuals for other legal papers (.g. passports, application forms). The reproduction rates are studied to know whether population of the country is increasing, decreasing or is stable. On the basis of trends in births and deaths, many manufacturers plan their production of goods, clothing, medicines and other articles needed for children and aged people. Insurance companies make use of Vital Statistics in determining the rates of the premium for different ages on the basis of life expectation at different age groups. The business prospects of jewelers, furniture manufacturers are influenced by the trend in marriage rate. Medical and pharmaceutical research is carried out on the basis of mortality data. Statistical methods enable planning of experiments and evaluation of results of different treatments and medicines used for curing the diseases.

The Vital Statistics is used by the number of governments and private agencies foe economic plans e.g. provision of electricity, water and sewerage

As a remedy to the faculty of the crude death rate, we make use of specific death rates for comparing mortality. For example, the age-specific death rates compare deaths by ages. It is thus a satisfactory method for comparing death rates. To have a clear insight into the mortality experience of two communities or even to observe the changes that occur over the years in a community, it becomes necessary to compare the age-specific death rates according to sex, marital status etc, such an investigation requires an enormous amount of data, which is too detailed to bring about the required analysis. A need, is therefore, felt for a single mortality rate which should sum up the rates at all ages and enable satisfactory comparisons between the mortality rates of one locality with that of the other or the mortality rates of the same locality over the years. The death rate used for this purpose is known as standardized death rate or corrected death rate or adjusted death rate. The standardized death rate (S.D.R.) is a fictitious death rate which shows what would be the mortality in the two communities or localities if they had populations which were equivalent in their age distribution. In finding the standardized death rate, some actual population is used as standard population. For example, the population of Asia may be taken as standard population to calculate the death rate for Pakistan. There are two methods of standardizing the death rates: 1. Direct Method 2. Indirect Method Direct Method: In this method, the age-specific death rates are multiplied by the standard population in the corresponding age groups. The resulting figures are the expected deaths. The total expected deaths for all ages divided by the total standard population gives the adjusted death rate or standardized deaths rate by direct method. This rate can be considered as the crude death which would have been observed in the standard population if it had itself experienced the age specific deaths of the locality/area. Thus S.DR. = Expected number of deaths in the standardized population 1000 Total standard population

Where di= number of deaths in the ith age-group of the given population pi= mid-year population of the ith age-group of the same population Pi= mid-year population of the ith age-group in the standard population If the age-specific death rates S.DR. are denoted by mi, then

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