%0 Journal Article
%T Assessing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Residents towards Civil Registration & Vital Statistics at Hawassa City Administration and Its Neighbourhoods, SNNPRS, Ethiopia
%A Aklilu Toma Shamenna
%J Scientific & Academic Publishing
%D 2020
%R 10.5923/j.jamss.20200601.02
%X In 2011, only 7 per cent of Ethiopian children under 5 years old were registered at birth. With no proof of age or identity, children do not have the minimal protection needed against child marriage, child labor, trafficking or detention and prosecution as an adult. The absence of a legal framework for a national vital events registration and vital statistics system has resulted in unconventional and uncoordinated practices of producing civil status evidence, such as the issuance of birth, death and marriage certificates by hospitals, churches and municipalities. This research is intended to assess resident¡¯s knowledge, attitude and practice toward vital statistics and civil registration in Hawassa City Admiration, Ethiopia. Stratified random sampling techniques were applied and a sample was selected based on single stage stratified sampling design. All sub cities under Hawassa city administration were stratified as into 12 clusters based on CSA 2007 population and housing census of Ethiopia and a total of 377 households were included in the study. Among the respondents included in the survey, 24.6% of them had registered for vital events of their family. The study also revealed that the most common reasons for not being registered for vital events are the long-time taken to take service at kebeles (56.5%), long distance to registration office (48.5%), high registration cost (44.0%), lack of awareness on vital events registration (27.1%) and lack of information on vital events registration (28.6%). Furthermore, the result of correlation specified that, there is a significant positive relation between household attitude and practice on vital event registration. Concerned government body should take in to account this gap and promote usefulness of vital events registration to the public
%K Civil Registration
%K Vital Events
%K Attitude
%K Ethiopia
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