Birth Register

Base de données fédértale établie annuellement. Prescrite par l'AR du 14 juin 1999 pour établir la statistique nationale des naissances.

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Field	Value
Publisher	Statistics Belgium
Modified	2020-09-28
Release Date	2018-07-17
Identifier	7f21d030-7ee3-4537-a2e6-7e8e25a6af30
License	Creative Commons Attribution
Public Access Level	Public

Protocol

Protocol
Full title of the project	Birth Register
Name or abbreviated title of the project where available	BE_Livebirths_YYYY
Source type	Administrative sources

Sponsor(s)

Primary organization that oversees implementation of study and is responsible for data analysis.
Name of organisation	Statistics Belgium [Thematische Directie Bevolking]

Commissioner(s)

Organisation (1) that commissioned this project
Name of organisation (1)	Johan Duyck

Organisation (2) that commissioned this project
Name of organisation (2)	Edwin Pelfrene

Organisation (3) that commissioned this project
Name of organisation (3)	Marc Debuisson

Source(s) of Monetary or Material Support

Additional information	Numerous others commissionners!

Governance

Governance
Is there a Steering / Accompanying committee?	No

General information

General information
Project description	Base de données fédértale établie annuellement. Prescrite par l'AR du 14 juin 1999 pour établir la statistique nationale des naissances.

Therapeutic area
Disease	Female diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems and pregancy complications Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities

Objective of the project
Additional information	No additional information available

Scope
Scope	Epidemiology

Legal basis

Type of legal basis
Type of legal basis	Royal Decree EU regulation

Legal documents
Full reference of legal document (1)	14 juni 1999. - Koninklijk besluit waarbij een jaarlijkse statistiek van de geboorten wordt voorgeschreven. (Publicatie: 5 oktober 1999)
URL to legal document (1)	http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&cn=1999061445&table_name=wet
Full reference of legal document (2)	COM/2011/0903 definitief - 2011/0440 (COD) Voorstel voor een verordening van het Europees Parlement en de Raad betreffende de Europese bevolkingsstatistieken.
URL to legal document (2)	http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/NL/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52011PC0903&qid=1408972192328

Design of the project

Data transfer frequency
Data transfer frequency	Yearly

Method of data transfer
Data transfer method(s)	E-mail (secured) Secured file transfer protocol (SFTP)

Sites involved in the project

Type of site(s)
Care Provider	General hospitals

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project

Health professionals involved (encoding) in the project
Care Giver	Physicians Midwives Nurses
Specialty of physicians involved (encoding) in the project	Gynaecology and obstetrics

Informed consent

Informed consent
Are subjects informed?	No
How are subjects informed?	Not applicable
Do subjects have to give their consent?	No
How do subjects give their consent?	Not applicable
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to consult their registered information?	Not applicable
Is there a procedure to provide subjects the ability to correct their registered information?	Not applicable
Additional information	No additional information available

Review

Ethics Committee
Authorization by an Ethics Committee?	No

Sectoral Committee National Registry (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	No

Sectoral Committee Health / Social affairs (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Health / Social affairs of the Privacy Commission	No

Sectoral Committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises (Privacy Commission)
Authorization by the sectorial committee Crossroads Bank of Enterprises of the Privacy Commission (Y/N)	No

Data quality

Data quality
First year for which data is available	1998
Procedures for checking and validating the source data	missing records, consistency, data type, limit, coupling with National Register
Data compilation process	Data editing
Punctuality for the most recent completed data collection: the data collection was completed	More than 1 year after the communicated deadline
Participation rate of the health institutions	Very high (80-100%)
Participation rate of the health professionals	Very high (80-100%)
Extent of unit non-response	Very low or none (0-4%)
Extent of the item non-response	There is nearly no item non-response
Necessity of editing the raw data	The rate of item non-response is not known or unacceptably high (>50%)
Extend to which the collected data are comparable across the Belgian regions	Comparability across the Belgian regions is slightly restricted
Comparable or reconcilable over time	Comparability over time is restricted to some extent
Additional information	No additional information available
Extent of problems with the misclassification of statistical units for their key variables	Very low or none (0-4%)
Can records belonging to same entity be matched?	Not applicable
Additional information	No additional information available

Data storage

Data storage
Total number of unique records	1560000
The organisation in charge of storage of the collected data, is certified as being compliant with the international standards on information security management system (eg. ISO27001)?	No information available
Additional information	Les données antérieures à 1998 sont également stockées à la DG SIE, mais je ne sais pas oÃ¹ ,i dans quel état.

Data access

Data access
Written Data sharing policy?	Yes

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