Indicator 16.9.1 - Proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have been registered with a civil authority, by age
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| SDG Indicator Name | Proportion of children under 5 years of age whose births have been registered with a civil authority, by age |
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| SDG Target Addressed | By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration. |
| Definition of SDG Indicator | From UNICEF: This indicator provides the proportion of children under the age of five whose births are reported as being registered with the relevant national civil authorities. It is calculated by dividing the number of children under the age of five whose births are reported as being registered with the relevant national civil authorities by the total number of children under the age of five in the population. From Goal 16 TST Working Group: The indicator is calculated as the number of children whose births have been registered with a civil authority divided by the total number of children. From UNFPA: Percentage of births that are registered within a certain period of time after birth (one month, one year, five years of age) in a civil registration and vital statistics system or from household surveys. |
| UN Designated Tier | 1 |
| UN Custodial Agency | UNSD, UNICEF (Partnering Agencies:UNFPA, DESA Population Division) |
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| Method of computation for global SDG indicator | From UNFPA: Number of births registered within a given period of time after birth (a month, a year, 0-4 years) in a given calendar year / Total number of births in a given calendar year Method of measurement: data should be available and could be obtained from civil registration and vital statistics systems. Civil registration administrative data could be linked to estimates of the expected number of newborns. In countries with deficient CRVS systems, data is collected via household surveys (DHS and MICS). Questions are asked about registration status of children born in the five years preceding the data of the survey. The numerator of this indicator includes children whose birth certificate was seen by the interviewer or whose mother or care-taker says the birth has been registered. Data are also often presented for other age groups such as infants or children under 5 years of age. Method of estimation: currently UNICEF produces and publish estimates of birth registration for children under five using both CRVS and household surveys data. Alternative data sources to be considered are the United Nations Demographic Yearbook and the World Population Prospects produced by UNPD-DESA. A new methodology and set of procedures need to be put in place to produce the desired estimate of birth registration for under one year of age (see justifications below). |
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| Graph Title | Percent of US births registered in all 50 states and the District of Columbia |
| Actual indicator available | Percent of US births registered in all 50 states and the District of Columbia |
| Description of actual indicator available | Percent of annual births occurring in the United states to residents and non-residents registered by a vital statistics jurisdiction |
| Method of computation | Estimated percent of births registered by all 50 states and the District of Columbia. |
| Comments and limitations | Births are registered by state vital registration systems. Reported births are based on 100% of all birth certificates registered in all states and the District of Columbia. It is estimated that more than 99 percent of births occurring in the US are registered based on previous results of a national test of birth-registration completneness according to place of delivery and race. |
| Periodicity | Annual |
| Time Period | 2007-2015 |
| Unit of measure | |
| Disaggregation #1 (Industry or social categories) | |
| Disaggregation #2 (Geographical coverage) | |
| Date of public data release from National source | September, 2016 |
| Date of last Update of This Page | |
| Scheduled Update by National source | September, 2017 |
| Scheduled Update by SDG Team | |
| Data Source1 (Agency STAFF NAME) | Reproductive Health Statistics, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics |
| Data Source2 (Staff E-MAIL) | ambranum@cdc.gov |
| Data Source3 (Agency/Survey/Dataset name) | National Center for Health Statistics/Final natality data |
| Indicator web address (closest to data provided) | http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm |
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