Information Collected

Uganda Legal Analysis

Some of the UN recommended high priority statistical topics are collected at birth registration, while others are not recorded at birth registration but would in theory be available via the National Identification Number of the parents of the child being registered, which is part of the birth registration particulars.

Both the Registration of Persons Act and its accompanying regulations require information on:
* Marital status of the mother;
* Educational attainment of mother/father.
However, these particulars are not requested on the Notice of Birth form (Form 3) and so are likely not recorded in practice.

Some details about the birth and the mother’s medical history are omitted from the particulars collected at birth registration:
*Attendant at birth;
*Type of birth (single, twin, triplet, etc);
*Fetal deaths to mother during lifetime;
*Date of last previous live birth.

Some information about the child’s parents is omitted from the particulars of birth registration, but is collected upon registration for a National Identification Number and could be linked via that route:
*Date of birth of mother/father
*Date of marriage
*Duration of residence in usual place of mother.

The birth registration particulars do not include:
*Date of birth of the mother or the father.
*Place/country of birth of the mother (or father)
However, they do include the mother’s age and the nationality of both parents.

Uganda Legal Analysis

Most of the UN recommended high priority statistical topics are collected at death.

The particulars required by law and the Notification of Death Form omit:
*Attendant at birth (for death under 1 year of age)
*Marital status
*Place of usual residence of mother (for deaths under 1 year).

The Notification of Death Form does not record:
*Certifier of the cause of death.
However, in terms of the law, this would have to be either the medical officer who attended the deceased during his or her last illness or the person who carried out the post-mortem examination.

The Notification of Death Form does not record:
*Place of death registration.
However, in most cases, the notification of death would take place at the local registration center and be forwarded to the National Identification and Registration Authority, which would provide a mechanism for identifying the place of registration.

Uganda Legal Analysis

Uganda’s laws and regulations on civil registration are silent on the reporting of stillbirths.

Uganda’s Ministry of Health records statistics on stillbirths through its electronic District Health Information System (DHIS-2), which is a computer-based health information system. This system defines a stillbirth as the death of a fetus weighing less than 1000g or occurring at greater than 28 weeks of pregnancy where the death takes place either before or during birth. Data on stillbirths is routinely recorded by public and private health facilities and aggregated at district level, with the aggregated data then being compiled in a national database.

An undated Newborn Perinatal Death Audit Form on the website of Uganda’s Ministry of Health was examined to ascertain what data is collected by the health sector on stillbirths. Most of the UN recommended high priority statistical topics are collected.

The *Mother’s date of birth is not recorded, but her age is recorded.

The following information is omitted:
*Date of last live birth
*Place of usual residence
*Marital status and *Date of marriage

No information is collected about the father of the stillborn child.