Quantitative Concept
vital statistics Audio
vi·tal sta·tis·tics
Subclass of:
Data Collection; Demography
Definitions related to vital statistics:
  • Data collected by registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages and divorces.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Government records of live births, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, and deaths that occur within that jurisdiction.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Used for general articles concerning statistics of births, deaths, marriages, etc.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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