Vital registration in Indonesia : a study of the completeness and behavioral determinants of reporting of births and deaths
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1981
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Gardiner, P. T.
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While many studies of deficient registration systems have tended
to emphasize organizational and methodological problems, it should be
clear that, ultimately, registration is a behavioral phenomenon,
measurable at the level of the individual or household and reflected
in whether or not registration of a particular vital event is actually
carried out. On a more aggregate level one can deal with the
geographically defined registration units to see how differences
between such units are related to the overall performance of the
registration system within them. This thesis examines some aspects of
registration behavior for births and deaths, at both the individual
and aggregate levels, within a sample of villages in Indonesia,
drawing on the results of a three-year Sample Vital Registration
Project caried out by the Indonesian Central Bureau of Statistics.
The impetus for the analysis came from the observation that the
completeness of registration varied extensively among different groups
of villages and that these differences were not always in expected
directions, the prime example being the relatively poor performance of
urban Project Areas relative to a number of those in rural parts of
the country. Drawing on the limited literature on reasons for
non-registration and on Indonesian experience, a framework is
developed for studying registration behavior. The analysis then draws
on the results of a series of surveys designed to specifically study
knowledge of, attitudes toward, and practice of registration in these
areas. Broadly, these results suggested that, like registration
quality, perceptions and attitudes related to registration also varied between the different Project Areas and, in certain circumstances,
within Project Areas in terms of registration behavior. It is
suggested that the nature of social organization and communication
about registration and about vital events within individual villages
was an important factor in conditioning these perceptions and
attitudes and that it was the relatively stronger social and
ideological ties between village officials and the general population
in some of the rural areas that helped explain why some of these areas
performed as well as they did.
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