Assessment of the completeness of births and deaths registration in an urban Nigerian community

Williams, Abimbola Onigbanjo

doi:10.11564/27-2-473

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“…Estimates of completeness of birth registration by various authors have focused on specific communities in Nigeria. Their work suggests that the completeness rate is above 65% in the studied communities, which were consistently above the aggregate rates reported by the NPC (Akande and Sekoni 2005;Tobin, Obi, and Isah 2013;Williams 2014). However, it should be noted that these communities were not representative of the country.…”

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Trends in the completeness of birth registration in Nigeria: 2002-2010

Makinde

Olapeju

Ogbuoji

et al. 2016

DemRes

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BACKGROUNDNigeria is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which identifies birth registration as a child's right. However, it is unclear how much progress has been made toward attaining universal birth registration in the country. METHODSThis paper reports findings from a secondary analysis of data from the 2007 and 2011 UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey in Nigeria. Trends in birth registration completeness based on year of birth of children and age at survey were computed, tabulated, and graphed. RESULTSBirth registration completeness was 31.5% and 41.5% in 2007 and 2011 respectively. Children had better odds of registration across Nigeria in 2011 than in 2007 (OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.59-2.01), except in the North East geopolitical zone (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.55-1.07). Likewise, older children had better odds of registration than those aged less than one year. Female children had worse chances of registration than their male counterparts (OR 0.92, 95% CI 0.85-0.99). CONCLUSIONBirth registration improved in 2011 over 2007 across Nigeria except in the North East region. However, much still needs to be done to achieve universal birth registration. Birth registration appears to still be influenced by the gender and age of the child. CONTRIBUTIONThis paper provides a rigorous assessment of the progress made toward universal birth registration, which has not been previously demonstrated.

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Trends in the completeness of birth registration in Nigeria: 2002-2010

Makinde

Olapeju

Ogbuoji

et al. 2016

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“…Similarly, in countries such as Peru, Haiti, India, Brazil and Honduras, children born to illiterate parents have been found to be less likely to have a birth certificate compared to children born to literate parents [ 23 ]. Furthermore, studies from other developing countries have also found that mothers who are educated are more likely to have the birth of their children registered [ 24 – 27 ]. The level of education of mothers could influence birth registration status through a number of mechanisms.…”

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Registered or unregistered? Levels and differentials in registration and certification of births in Ghana

Dake

Fuseini²

2018

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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BackgroundThe birth of a child is a vital event that needs to be registered but this is not always the case as an estimated 40 million births go unregistered annually. Birth registration safeguards the basic rights of children and gives them an identity, citizenship/nationality and legal protection against violence, abuse and human rights violations. It is therefore necessary that all births are registered and even more critical that the registration of a birth is followed by the issuance of a birth certificate. But sadly, birth registration in many African countries continues to remain below acceptable international standards and not all registered births are certified. This paper examined birth registration and certification in Ghana. Differentials in the characteristics of children and mothers of children whose births are registered and certified, children whose births are registered but not certified and children whose births are not registered were examined.MethodsThis paper analysed data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey drawing on variables from the household and children’s data files. Descriptive analytical tools (frequencies, percentage and cross tabulations) and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used to examine differentials in birth registration status among an analytical sample of 3880 (weighted) children aged 0–4 years.ResultsThe birth of about every 1 in 4 (28.89%) children in Ghana have never been registered. Birth registration and certification was lowest among children born to young mothers (15–19 years), children whose mothers have no formal education, mothers who reside in rural areas and mothers in the poorest wealth quintile. Additionally, home births and births that were not assisted by a medical professional were observed to have the lowest proportion of registered and certified births. Furthermore, the birth of children who are less than a year old was significantly more likely not to be registered or issued with a birth certificate.ConclusionEfforts aimed at improving birth registration and certification in Ghana need to target groups of children and mothers with low levels of registration and certification particularly children who are born at home, children born to young mothers and children whose mothers are poor and or reside in rural areas.

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“…A study conducted in urban Nigeria also reported that sex of the deceased was significantly associated with registration of deaths. 12 Highest death registration coverage was observed for those who died between the ages of 21 and 60 years. The main reason behind this could have been that majority in this age group would have been employed.…”

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Assessment of death registration coverage and its delays in district Faridkot: an urban rural comparison

Anupamdeep

Padda

Gupta

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Death registration has been made compulsory under the RBD Act 1969 as it acts as a back bone for planning services and formulates policies. According to CRS 2013, at national level, 70.9% of deaths were registered which is far from magic figure of 100% despite of concerted efforts of government. So this study was conducted to assess the coverage of death registration and its delays.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted over a period of one year where 332 households(166 each from urban and rural area reporting deaths in last two years were included in study after taking informed written consent. Relevant information was collected using a predesigned and pretested questionnaire by house to house survey. Coverage was calculated with possession of death certificate. Data was compiled and analyzed using EpiInfo07 (CDC, Atlanta, USA).Results: Out of 332 deaths, 245 (74%) out of which only140 (57%) possessed the death certificate. The main cause of death was cardiac diseases. Maximum coverage was seen in the age group 41-60 years. Delay in registration was seen in 48% with significantly higher proportion in rural area (59%) than in urban area (40%). Reasons for delay were time constraints, lack of knowledge and financial constraints. Socio demographic variables like religion, caste, type of family, family size and SES were not found to be associated with delay.Conclusions: The coverage of death registration was comparatively higher than national data and delay was observed in about half of the death registration coverage.

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Assessment of the completeness of births and deaths registration in an urban Nigerian community

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Trends in the completeness of birth registration in Nigeria: 2002-2010

Trends in the completeness of birth registration in Nigeria: 2002-2010

Registered or unregistered? Levels and differentials in registration and certification of births in Ghana

Assessment of death registration coverage and its delays in district Faridkot: an urban rural comparison

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