Word: births
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...encourage the National Center for Health Statistics to work through the Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics and the American Association of Vital Registrars and Public Health Statisticians to assure that a question concerning legitimacy will appear on the birth certificate and certificate of fetal death. This can be accomplished by having this item in the confidential section as recommended for the standard certificates...
...recommend that the National Center for Health Statistics encourage record linkage studies utilizing birth, fetal death, death, marriage and divorce records. We recommend that the Bureau of the Census encourage record linkage studies based on the 1970 Census of Population and Housing...
...encourage states to retain the question concerning race on the birth and death certificates and we encourage states to include questions on race on marriage and divorce certificates. This can be accomplished by having this item in the confidential section as recommended for the standard certificates...
...urge the National Center for Health Statistics to encourage local agencies to classify both birth and death certificates by city block or census tract, perhaps using the address register being developed by the Bureau of the Census for the Census of 1970. This will make possible further studies of the vital rates of minority groups...
...just speculating," he said, "but the Indian government and its vigorous health minister are anxious to get on with birth control now--partly for themselves and partly, maybe, to show the U.S. and the A.I.D. program that it is trying to help itself...