Central Statistics Office (CSO) Botswana

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Central Statistics Office (CSO)Botswana

• Improvement on Vital Statistics and Vital
  Registration
• Presentation By Goaletsa B. Kesetse

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration is a system that registers the
  occurrence of the events of births, deaths and
  marriages. The registered information can be
  compiled as vital statistics providing the
  frequency and characteristics of the vital events.

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DATA SOURCES FOR VITAL STATISTICS

• Central Statistics Office obtains vital
  statistics from Population censuses, sample
  surveys and administrative records.
• The last Botswana Population census was in 2001.
  There are several sample surveys between two
  censuses but not all of them provide vital
  statistics

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DATA SOURCES FOR VITAL STATISTICS contn.

• Civil registration can also be used to capture
  vital events. The registration of births and
  deaths in Botswana started in 1966.
• When registration of vital events started it was
  compulsory only in towns and major villages while
  in other places it was not compulsory to register

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DATA COLLECTION PROCESS

• Births and Deaths and Marriages

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DEATHS

• Registration of births and deaths is done at the
  health institutions by the health practitioner,
  by completing forms after confirmation of a
  death.
• The completed forms are sent to district
  registration office for data capture and issuance
  of certificate.

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BIRTHS

• The registration of births is also done at health
  institutions by practitioner. Births and deaths
  data capture system is such that it can be
  accessed from head office in Gaborone.

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DATA FLOW CHART BIRTHS AND DEATHS
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MARRIAGES

• The processed marriage forms are sent to the
  Department of Civil Registration for issuance of
  marriage certificate at respective districts.
  Copies of all marriages occurring are then sent
  to the Headquarters of Civil Registration for
  archiving. CSO has access to the forms from data
  capture is done.

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DATA FLOW CHART MARRIAGES
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PROCESSING AND DISSEMINATION OF VITAL STATISTICS

• Central Statistics Office through Demography Unit
  extracts vital events statistics from vital
  events registers kept by the department of Civil
  Registration.
• The data for births and deaths is computerised
  and is available online for Central Statistics
  Office

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FACTORS THAT HAMPER PRODUCTION OF VITAL STATISTICS
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Lack Promptness and completeness of registration

• Even though registration of vital events is
  decentralised to districts people still register
  when need arises e.g. When a child goes to school
  or when beneficiaries of the deceased have to
  place a claim with an insurance company.

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Incompleteness of data

• Marriage data is easy to capture but the only
  problem is that not all marriages are captured.
  There are traditional marriages that are
  processed by the village chief/kgosi. These
  marriages are not registered with the Department
  of Civil Registration.
• Even for births and deaths, not all of them are
  registered.

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Inaccessibility of registration centres

• The wide dispersion of the population and the
  remoteness of rural areas from centres where the
  local registration offices are located also pose
  a problem for registration of vital events.

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Lack of harmonisation between CSO and Civil and
National Registration Office

• CSO uses SPSS for analysis while Civil and
  National Registration Office database is oracle
  based. This creates a problem since there is a
  problem of lack IT officer who are conversant
  with oracle.
• Furthermore the CNRO districts do not conform to
  census districts which are used in CSO

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