Civil Register Statistics 2004
Civil Register Statistics 2004
It presents information relative to vital facts occurred in the country, encompassing the overall number of birth registers of infants born alive, of deaths and fetal deaths, as well information relative to marriages informed by Natural Persons Register Offices and information about judicial separations and divorces reported by Family Courts or Civil Courts.
Since 2003, in the total of births considered as occurred in the year are also included those which occurred in the year of reference of the survey and were registered until the end of the first quarter of the subsequent year. This new totalization of birth registers allows the inclusion, in the estimates of under-registration, a group of events not previously included, the reason why this group of births had been taken out of the total late registers.
The publication also presents the definition of characteristics investigated in the survey and an analysis of the information disseminated, highlighting the low levels of coverage of registers of births and deaths of infants under one year of age in several areas all over the country, especially in the North and Northeast Regions.
This group of information is available in the CD-ROM which comes enclosed with the publication.
The civil register statistics constitute an important instrument for the monitoring of the Brazilian population evolution, for the exercise of citizenship and for the implementation of public policies, especially those aimed at the field of public health.