DDI_ZAF_1998-2010_RLB_v01_M Development Economics Data Group 2012-07-27 NADA Version 1 Recorded Live Births 1998–2010 ZAF_1998-2010_RLB_v01_M Statistics South Africa NADA Statistics South Africa Administrative Records, Other (ad/oth] - v01: Edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution. South Africa National Coverage The target population is all births recorded on the NPR between 1998 and 2010 for South African citizens and permanent residents, regardless of which year the birth occurred. All births that occurred in South Africa with parents being non-South African citizens or not permanent residents were excluded. The registration of births in South Africa is governed by the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1992 (Act No. 51 of 1992), as amended, and is administered by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) using Form DHA-24 (Notice of birth), which recently replaced Form BI-24 that was previously used. Notice of the birth must be given by one of the parents or; if neither parent is available to do so, the person having charge of the child or a person requested by the parents to do so. The person requested to register the birth must have a written mandate from the child's parents which must also include the reasons why neither of the parents is in a position to register the birth. The birth of a child outside the country; where at least one parent is a South African citizen; can be registered at any South African Mission abroad.Documentary proof in the form of a birth certificate of the foreign country must accompany the Notice of Birth. The Act states that a child must be registered within 30 days of birth. Where the notice of a birth is given after the expiration of 30 days from the date of the birth, the Director-General may demand that reasons for the late notice be furnished and that the fingerprints be taken of the person whose notice of birth is given. Where the notice of a birth is given for a person aged 15 years and older, the birth shall be registered if it complies with the prescribed requirements for a late registration of birth. Following the registration of a birth, a birth certificate is issued by the DHA. Citizens and permanent residents receive computer-printed abridged birth certificates and non-citizens receive handwritten certificates. The information of South African citizens and permanent residents is captured on the National Population Register (NPR). The following persons and particulars are eligible to be included on the NPR: - All children born of South African citizens and permanent residents when the notice of the birth is given within one year after the birth of the child. - All children born of South African citizens and permanent residents when the notice of the birth is given one year after the birth of the child; together with the prescribed requirement for a late registration of birth. - All South African citizens and permanent residents who, upon attainment of the age of 16, applied for and were granted identification cards (or books). - All South African citizens and permanent residents who die at any age after birth. - All South African citizens and permanent residents who depart permanently from South Africa. The DHA captures information on places based on magisterial districts using the twelfth edition of the Standard Code List of Areas (Central Statistics Services, 1995). Stats SA then recodes the magisterial districts into district councils (DCs), metropolitan areas (metros) and provinces based on the 2011 municipal boundaries. The data sets for 1998 to 2010 have all been recoded according to the 2011 municipal boundaries. It should be noted that the distribution of births by DCs, metros and provinces are approximate figures; as there was no perfect match of magisterial districts for all DCs, metros and provinces since some magisterial districts are situated in more than one DC, metro or province. Such magisterial districts were allocated to the district council where the majority of the land area falls (see the folder on maps). The only exception was with Nigel in Gauteng province. The majority of the land area of Nigel magisterial district is in Sedibeng district council (which is mainly farm areas and therefore sparsely populated) while the majority of the population lives in Ekurhuleni metropolitan area. As such, Nigel was classified to Ekurhuleni and not Sedibeng. Magisterial district of birth refers to the district of birth occurrence for births registered before 15 years of age. For those that were registered from 15 years of age, district refers to the district of birth registration. Furthermore, from 2009, the processing of late birth registrations from age 15 were centralised at the DHA head office in Pretoria. As such, the late birth registrations processed in Pretoria from 15 years have a district code of Pretoria; even if they occurred in other areas. There were a few exceptional cases which were registered in Pretoria; but were not captured using the Pretoria code. Other [oth] NOTICE OF BIRTH - [Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992] A. DETAILS OF THE CHILD B. DETAILS OF FATHER (PARENT A) C. DETAILS OF MOTHER (PARENT B) D. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PATERNITY OF A CHILD BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK E. DETAILS OF THE LEGAL GUARDIAN/SOCIAL WORKER* F. DECLARATION G. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - OFFICE OF ORIGIN Data capturing of information on births is done by DHA officials. The data is captured directly onto the Population Register Database at Nucleus Bureau. These transactions are used to update the database of the NPR and the population register database. As soon as the DHA has captured the data; the data is made available on the mainframe. The data is then downloaded via ftp; or collected from the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) written on a CD by Stats SA. For the purpose of producing vital statistics, the following system is followed: all the civil transactions carried out at all DHA offices are written onto a cassette every day. At the end of every month, a combined set of cassettes is created containing all the transactions done for the month. These transactions are downloaded and the birth transactions are extracted for processing at Stats SA. The year in which the births are registered is the registration year. Using this information, Stats SA provides a breakdown of the registered births according to the year in which the births occurred. While birth information sent to Stats SA is the same as that in the population register, there is a difference in the format between the two. On one hand, Stats SA’s data are based on births registered during the year (registration-based), while on the other hand, entries in the population register reflect the date of birth. Users are cautioned on the following limitations of the data: - Father’s age had a high percentage of cases where information was unspecified or unknown for all the years. - Data for 1998 and 1999 have incorrect information on month of birth, which could not be resolved. Note: - Unknown : refers to cases where the answer provided is not correct or not possible given the options available. - Unspecified: refers to cases where no response was given. The information remains confidential to Stats SA. The Statistics Act, 1999 (Act No.6 of 1999) prohibits the disclosure of information regarding individuals to any person concerned or their lawful representative. Therefore, the information published on recorded live births does not include personal information about the child or its parents; and is released in such a way that no individual can be identified. Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include: - the Identification of the Primary Investigator - the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation) - the survey reference number - the source and date of download The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses. RLB1998_2010_F1 Recorded live births: South Africa, 1998–2010 17845788 11 Year the birth was registered Year the birth was registered Year the birth was registered Year the birth was registered Year the birth was registered 17845788 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Year of birth occurrence Year of birth occurrence Year of birth occurrence Year of birth occurrence Year of birth occurrence 17845788 1911 1912 1913 1914 1916 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Month of birth occurrence Month of birth occurrence Month of birth occurrence Month of birth occurrence Month of birth occurrence 17845788 1 January 2 February 3 March 4 April 5 May 6 June 7 July 8 August 9 September 10 October 11 November 12 December 99 Unspecified Sex of the child Sex of the child Sex of the child Sex of the child Sex of the child 17845788 1 Male 2 Female Age of the father Age of the father Age of the father Age of the father Age of the father 17845788 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 998 Not applicable 999 Unspecified Age of the mother Age of the mother Age of the mother Age of the mother Age of the mother 17845788 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 998 Not applicable 999 Unspecified Status of birth registration Status of birth registration Status of birth registration Status of birth registration Status of birth registration 17845788 1 Current 2 Late Place code of the magisterial district Place code of the magisterial district Place code of the magisterial district Place code of the magisterial district Place code of the magisterial district 17845788 Name of the magisterial district Name of the magisterial district Name of the magisterial district Name of the magisterial district Name of the magisterial district 17845788 ABERDEEN ADELAIDE ALBANY ALBERT ALBERTON ALEXANDRIA ALFRED ALIWAL-NORTH AMERSFOORT BABANANGO BAFOKENG BALFOUR BARBERTON BARKLY-EAST BARKLY-WEST BATHURST BEAUFORT-WEST BEDFORD BELFAST BELLVILLE BENONI BERGVILLE BETHAL BETHLEHEM BETHULIE BIZANA BLOEMFONTEIN BLOEMHOF BOCHUM BOKSBURG BOLOBEDU BOSHOF BOTHAVILLE BOTSHABELO BRAKPAN BRANDFORT BREDASDORP BRITS BRITSTOWN BRONKHORSTSPRUIT BULTFONTEIN BUTTERWORTH CALA CALEDON CALITZDORP CALVINIA CAMPERDOWN CAPE CARNARVON CAROLINA CATHCART CERES CHATSWORTH CHRISTIANA CLANWILLIAM CLOCOLAN COFIMVABA COLESBERG COLIGNY CRADOCK CULLINAN DANNHAUSER DE AAR DELAREYVILLE DELMAS DEWETSDORP DITSOBOTLA DUNDEE DURBAN DZANANI EAST LONDON EDENBURG EERSTEHOEK ELLIOT ELLIOTDALE ELLISRAS ENGCOBO ERMELO ESHOWE ESTCOURT EXCELSIOR FAURESMITH FICKSBURG FLAGSTAFF FOREIGN FORT BEAUFORT FOURIESBURG FRANKFORT FRASERBURG GANYESA GEORGE GERMISTON GIYANI GLENCOE GOODWOOD GORDONIA GRAAF-REINET GROBLERSDAL HANKEY HANOVER HARRISMITH HARTSWATER HAY HEIDELBERG (GP) HEIDELBERG (WC) HEILBRON HENNENMAN HERBERT HERMANUS HEWU HIGHVELD RIDGE HLABISA HLANGANANI HOFMEYR HOOPSTAD HOPEFIELD HOPETOWN HUMANSDORP IDUTYWA IMPENDLE INANDA INDWE INGWAVUMA IXOPO JACOBSDAL JAGERSFONTEIN JANSENVILLE JOHANNESBURG JOUBERTINA KEISKAMMAHOEK KEMPTON PARK KENHARDT KENTANI KIMBERLEY KING WILLIAMS TOWN KIRKWOOD KLERKSDORP KLIPRIVIER KNYSNA KOFFIEFONTEIN KOMGA KOPPIES KOSTER KRANSKOP KRIEL KROONSTAD KRUGERSDORP KUDUMANE KUILS RIVER KURUMAN KWAMHLANGA LADISMITH LADY FRERE LADY GREY LADYBRAND LAINGSBURG LEHURUTSE LETABA LIBODE LICHTENBURG LINDLEY LIONS RIVER LOWER TUGELA LOWER UMFOLOZI LULEKANI LUSIKISIKI LYDENBURG MACLEAR MADIKWE MAHLABATINI MALAMULELE MALMESBURY MALUTI MANKWE MAPULANENG MAPUMULU MARICO MARQUARD MBIBANA MDANTSANE MDUTJANA MESSINA MHALA MIDDELBURG (EC) MIDDELBURG (MP) MIDDLEDRIFT MITCHELLS PLAIN MKOBOLA MOKERONG MOLOPO MOLTENO MONTAGU MOOI RIVER MOORREESBURG MORETELE 1 MORETELE 11 MOSSEL BAY MOUNT CURRIE MOUTSE MPOFU MQANDULI MSINGA MT AYLIFF MT FLETCHER MT FRERE MTONJANENI MTUNZINI MURRAYSBURG MUTALE NAMAKGALE NAMAKWALAND NAPHUNO NDWEDWE NEBO NELSPRUIT NEW HANOVER NEWCASTLE NGOTSHE NGQELENI NIGEL NKANDLA NKOMAZI NONGOMA NOUPOORT NQAMAKWE NQUTU NSIKAZI NTABETHEMBA OBERHOLZER ODENDAALSRUS ODI OUDTSHOORN PAARL PARYS PAULPIETERSBURG PEARSTON PEDDIE PELGRIMSRUS PETRUSBURG PHALABORWA PHILIPPOLIS PHILIPSTOWN PIET RETIEF PIETERMARITZBURG PIETERSBURG PIKETBERG PINETOWN POLELA PORT ELIZABETH PORT SHEPSTONE PORT ST JOHNS POSTMASBURG POTCHEFSTROOM POTGIETERSRUS PRETORIA PRIESKA PRINCE ALBERT QUEENSTOWN QUMBU RANDBURG RANDFONTEIN REDDERSBURG REITZ RICHMOND RITAVI RIVERSDALE ROBERTSON ROODEPOORT ROUXVILLE RUSTENBURG SASOLBURG SCHWEIZER-RENEKE SEKGOSESE SEKHUKHUNELAND SENEKAL SESHEGO SIMDLANGENTSHA SIMONS TOWN SMITHFIELD SOMERSET-EAST SOMERSET-WEST SOSHANGUVE SOUTPANSBERG SPRINGS STANDERTON STELLENBOSCH STERKSPRUIT STERKSTROOM STEYNSBURG STEYTLERVILLE STRAND STUTTERHEIM SUTHERLAND SWARTRUGGENS SWELLENDAM TABANKULU TARKA TAUNG THABAMOOPO THABANCHU THABAZIMBI THEUNISSEN THOHOYANDOU TROMPSBURG TSOLO TSOMO TULBAGH UBOMBO UITENHAGE UMBUMBULU UMLAZI UMTATA UMVOTI UMZIMKULU UMZINTO UNDERBERG UNIONDALE UNKNOWN UTRECHT VANDERBIJLPARK VANRHYNSDORP VENTERSBURG VENTERSDORP VENTERSTAD VEREENIGING VICTORIA-EAST VICTORIA-WEST VILJOENSKROON VIRGINIA VOLKSRUST VREDE VREDEFORT VREDENBURG VREDENDAL VRYBURG VRYHEID VUWANI WAKKERSTROOM WARMBAD WARRENTON WATERBERG WATERVAL-BOVEN WEENEN WELKOM WELLINGTON WEPENER WESSELSBRON WESTONARIA WILLISTON WILLOWMORE WILLOWVALE WINBURG WITBANK WITRIVIER WITSIESHOEK WODEHOUSE WOLMARANSSTAD WONDERBOOM WORCESTER WYNBERG ZASTRON ZWELITSHA District Municipality of birth occurrence District Municipality of birth occurrence District Municipality of birth occurrence District Municipality of birth occurrence District Municipality of birth occurrence 17845788 Alfred Nzo Amajuba Amatole Bojanala Buffalo city Cacadu Cape Winelands Capricorn Central Karoo Chris Hani City of Cape Town City of Johannesburg City of Tshwane Dr Kenneth Kaunda Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati Eden Ehlanzeni Ekurhuleni Fezile Dabi Foreign Frances Baard Gert Sibande Greater Sekhukhune Joe Gqabi John Taolo Gaetsewe Lejweleputswa Mangaung Mopani Namakwa Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Ngaka Modiri Molema Nkangala O.R. Tambo Overberg Pixley ka Seme Sedibeng Sisonke Siyanda Thabo Mofutsanyane UMgungundlovu Ugu Umkhanyakude Umzinyathi Unknown Uthukela Uthungulu Vhembe Waterberg West Coast West Rand Xhariep Zululand eThekwini iLembe Province of birth occurrence Province of birth occurrence Province of birth occurrence Province of birth occurrence Province of birth occurrence 17845788 1 Western Cape 2 Eastern Cape 3 Northern Cape 4 Free State 5 KwaZulu-Natal 6 North West 7 Gauteng 8 Mpumalanga 9 Limpopo 98 Unknown 99 Unspecified