crvs:Birth

https://publicschema.org/crvs/Birth

candidate

A live birth, meaning the complete expulsion or extraction of a product of conception from its mother, irrespective of duration of pregnancy, which after such separation breathes or shows any other evidence of life. Captures the child, the parents, and attributes used by civil registration and vital statistics (sex at birth, birth order, attendant, weight, place type).

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Supertypes

VitalEvent

Properties

Property Type Definition
Event date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Distinct from the registration date, which is when the event was recorded by a registration authority.
Event date estimated from VitalEvent boolean
Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for late-registered births or deaths where the precise date is not documented.
Event location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of birth or the place of death). Distinct from the registration location, which is where the event was recorded.
Registration date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil registration authority. May be later than the event date, especially for late registrations.
Registration location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a municipal or district-level registry distinct from the place of occurrence.
Registration type from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-type)
The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal window), late, court-ordered, or reconstruction of a lost record. Affects legal weight and downstream uses.
Registrar from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions this is the officer whose signature appears on the acte.
Informant from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typically a parent for births, a relative or medical professional for deaths, or the parties themselves for marriages.
Registration status from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-status)
The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it is declared, pending validation, registered, rejected, cancelled, or has been corrected or archived.
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Child concept:crvs/Person includes Parent The child whose birth, adoption, or legitimation is recorded in this event.
Parents concept:crvs/Parent
The parents of the child, each captured as a Parent link entity that combines a Person with a parental role-nature (biological, gestational, legal, or adoptive).
Sex at birth string (sex)
The sex of the child as observed and recorded at the time of birth. Distinct from any later legal or administrative sex marker.
Nationality at birth string (country)
The nationality acquired by the child at the time of birth, typically derived from parentage (jus sanguinis) or place of birth (jus soli) according to the applicable national law.
Place type string (crvs/place-type)
The category of place where the vital event occurred (health facility, home, en route, etc.). Complements the specific Location by describing what kind of setting it was.
Birth type string (crvs/birth-type)
Whether the birth was single, twin, triplet, or higher-order multiple. Captured at the level of the delivery, not per infant.
Birth order integer
For multiple births, the sequence number of this infant among the siblings born in the same delivery (1 for first-born, 2 for second-born, etc.).
Weight at birth decimal
The weight of the child at birth, recorded in grams. A core UN Principles and Recommendations vital statistics variable used to identify low birth weight.
Attendant at birth string (crvs/birth-attendant)
The type of person who attended the delivery (physician, midwife, nurse, traditional birth attendant, other, or none). Used as a proxy for safe delivery in health statistics.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 country config (Farajaland) EventDocument (type='birth', country-configured) broad
In v2 core, a birth is an EventDocument whose type string is the country-configured birth event id. All birth-specific fields (child name, parents, birth type, attendant, weight) live in EventConfig.declaration. The EventDocument envelope is broader than our Birth concept; Farajaland's birthEvent defines the reference implementation.

Referenced by this concept

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