[ES] Vital Statistics: Births

Full name of the series in original language

Movimiento Natural de Población: Nacimientos

Abstract

As with the rest of the Vital Statistics, the Birth Statistics collect the data from the statistical registers filled out at the time of registering these demographic facts in the Civil Register. This circumstance has traditionally motivated the use, in the Vital Statistics, of the concepts of newborn, deceased infant, marriage and death, with the meanings given them in the Civil Code.
Bearing in mind that, for civil purposes, "a fetus will only be classified as born if it has a human-like appearance and lives for twenty-four hours completely outside the mother's womb” (Art. 30 of the Civil Code), the birth and death statistics compiled up until 1975 did not adjust to the internationally recognised demographic contents, since they did not include those live birth infants who died before the first 24 hours of existence, since the Civil Code calls them "deceased infants" (Art. 745).
Although the use of this concept does not noticeably alter the global figures of births and deaths, it does considerably modify some specific death rates (infant, neonatal, perinatal, etc.). In order to negate this drawback, it was necessary to extract, from the so-called Miscarriage Statistics, the live births, to calculate the "rectified rates".
Since 1975, the concept of birth in the tables presenting the results of the Vital Statistics is identified by the biological term "live birth", which is that used in the demographic field, with the corresponding effect on the concept of death. So as to avoid confusion for persons who must fill out the statistical registers, the legal criteria have been maintained at the time of annotating the data, since otherwise, when one would go to state the case of a deceased infant, it would be
necessary to fulfil the administrative requirements for statistical purposes, if the child was a live birth, a birth register and a death register. For this reason, it is during the data processing when the indicated conceptual valuables are introduced.
The instrument used for the data collection is the Childbirth Statistical Register.

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Geographic coverage

Spain

Notes

Conducted since 1858.
Available since 1941.
Microdata files since 1975.

Time method

TimeSeries: Continuous

Time period

1975 => 2022

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Access mode

Update date

29/10/2024