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13. VITAL STATISTICS
The Vital Statistics unit of this Department continued to engage in the collection, compilation, tabulation and analysis of data on births and deaths for publication of Vital Statistics of the State. The data generated through civil registration under the Registration of Births and Death Act, 1969 are collected. The Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths is the Director of Panchayat s and Additional Chief Registrar of Birth and death is Additional Director of this Department.. The District Panchyat officers are the District Registrars. The commissioners of Municipalities and Corporations are empowered with powers of the District Registrars. In Corporations Health Officers are appointed as Local Registrars and in Minicipalities and Guruvayoor Township, the senior most Health Inspectors are the Local Registrars. In the rural area the Executive Officers of the Panchayats function as the Local Registrars for the purpose of civil registration. The Local Registrars furnish the details of births and deaths in the prescribed forms regularly to the Directorate of Economics and Statistics where further processing of the data on vital events (births and deaths) is carried out.
Survey on Census of death (rural) survey on medical certification of cause of death and sport check survey are also conducted by this Division
14. SAMPLE REGISTRATION
The objective of the scheme is to collect quick and reliable data for the estimation of vital rates. This scheme has been found necessary because of the incompleteness of the civil registration data. In Kerala the survey in the rural sector is being conducted by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics and in urban sector by the Census Department of Government of India.
In Kerala the survey is being conducted in 150 selected rural samples.