Kamus Demografi Pelbagai Bahasa, Edisi Kedua, Volum Bahasa Malaysia

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Operasi-operasi banci¹ kebiasaannya bermula dengan persempadanan kawasan-kawasan banci² dan daerah-daerah penghitungan³. Daerah-daerah penghitungan di pekan-pekan dan di bandar-bandar terdiri daripada satu atau beberapa blok⁴, di mana blok ditakrifkan sebagai satu kumpulan bangunan yang boleh dilalui tanpa menyeberangi sesuatu jalanraya atau satu kumpulan bangunan yang dikelilingi oleh beberapa halangan seperti landasan keretapi ataupun sungai. Kebanyakan bandar-bandar besar dan beberapa negara telah dibahagikan kepada kawasan-kawasan statistik yang dipanggil kawasan-kawasan banci⁵ yang mana terdiri daripada satu atau beberapa daerah penghitungan.

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Vital events¹ may be defined as births, deaths, stillbirths, foetal deaths, marriages, adoptions, legitimations, recognitions, annulments, divorces and separations; in short all the events which have to do with an individual’s entrance into or departure from life together with changes in civil status². Records of these events are generally called vital records³, or registration records³. For legal reasons vital events have, in many countries, long been the object of vital registration⁴ or civil registration⁴. Birth registration⁵, marriage registration⁷ and death registration⁹ use special forms as birth records⁶, marriage records⁸ and death records¹⁰; these are the most common types of registration documents. The person responsible for maintaining these registers is called the registrar¹¹.

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Vital statistics¹ or registration statistics¹ are obtained by processing the registration record or a statistical report² established at the time of registration. Tabulations by place of residence³ of the mother or of the decedent are often regarded as more useful for demographic purposes than tabulations by place of occurrence.

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The registers mentioned in a preceding paragraph (cf. 211-4) are distinct from the population registers¹ of those countries which possess a system of continuous registration². In these registers every member of the population or every family may be represented by a card³, and the register is maintained⁴ or updated⁴ through information which reaches it through the local registration offices and \ through registration of any changes of residence⁵ (cf. 310-6). It is usually matched⁶ with the census results and brought up to date at regular intervals by special checks⁷.

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Historical demography (102-1) often uses documents which precede or anticipate the development of civil registration (211-4) and nominal lists (207-3) from censuses. Parish registers¹ or parochial registers¹ contain information on the religious equivalents of vital events such as baptisms², religious marriages (503-2), and burials³. For chrisoms⁵, privately baptized infants who die at home prior to a formal church ceremony, only the burial record is available. Nominal lists contain information either on a portion of the population or more rarely on the whole population. They include the a status animarum⁶which are nominal lists of all parishioners, lists of communicants⁷ and confirmation lists⁸, as well as administrative and fiscal documents such as hearth tax lists⁹, taxation rolls¹⁰ and military conscription lists¹¹.

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Data are extracted from parish registers with the help of several types of forms¹ or slips¹ . These include the baptism slip², marriage slip³ and burial slip⁴. The names of the subjects of record⁵ (i.e. the persons being baptized, buried or getting married) are inscribed on these slips, and information is recorded about the parents and other persons such as the godfather⁶, the godmother⁷ and the witnesses⁸. Other transcription forms¹¹ are also used for summary extraction of the data, either with or without the names of the subjects. Family re-constitution (638-2) makes use of family reconstitution forms (638-1). When genealogies¹² reconstitute the descendance of an individual or a family, they are under certain conditions a valuable source of information on the demographic characteristics of the upper classes.