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The EMN offers rapid estimates on the number of births occuring each month using the entries registered in the computerized Civil Registries.
These statistics offer information that is disaggregated by autonomous community and province.
Comunidades Autonomas:
01 Andalucia
02 Aragon
03 Asturias, Principado de
04 Balears, Illes
05 Canarias
06 Cantabria
07 Castilla y Leon
08 Castilla - La Mancha
09 Cataluña
10 Comunitat Valenciana
11 Extremadura
12 Galicia
13 Madrid, Comunidad de
14 Murcia, Region de
15 Navarra, Comunidad Foral de
16 Pais Vasco
17 Rioja, La
18 Ceuta
19 Melilla
No residente
Provincias:
02 Albacete
03 Alicante/Alacant
04 Almeria
01 Araba/Álava
33 Asturias
05 Ávila
06 Badajoz
07 Balears, Illes
08 Barcelona
48 Bizkaia
09 Burgos
10 Caceres
11 Cadiz
39 Cantabria
12 Castellon/Castello
13 Ciudad Real
14 Cordoba
15 Coruña, A
16 Cuenca
20 Gipuzkoa
17 Girona
18 Granada
19 Guadalajara
21 Huelva
22 Huesca
23 Jaen
24 Leon
25 Lleida
27 Lugo
28 Madrid
29 Malaga
30 Murcia
31 Navarra
32 Ourense
34 Palencia
35 Palmas, Las
36 Pontevedra
26 Rioja, La
37 Salamanca
38 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
40 Segovia
41 Sevilla
42 Soria
43 Tarragona
44 Teruel
45 Toledo
46 Valencia/València
47 Valladolid
49 Zamora
50 Zaragoza
51 Ceuta
52 Melilla
No residente
It collects births occuring in Spain, regardless of whether the population is resident or non-resident
The basic statistical unit is birth.
The population under study are births in Spain.
The statistics cover the whole of the national territory. Disaggregated data at the Autonomous Community and province level is published.
Monthly Statistics of Births disseminate data from January 2013, although it has been ruled and included in the Inventory of statistical operations in 2022. However, there are birth results published in the Birth Statistics included in Natural Movement of the Population since 1900 on an annual basis.
Year 1975
The data is published:
Data referring to the period: Monthly Y: 2024 MONTH: 01
The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2021-2024, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of 15 December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2021-2024. (Statistics of the State Administration).
There are no planned exchanges of information with other statistics producing organizations.
The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society
The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.
The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)
The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice
The frequency of dissemination is monthly.
The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web
The results of these statistics are disseminated through the INE website, and certain results are collected in publications such as INE Figures, etc.
INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.
No. of queries to data tables AC1=314,173
No. of queries to metadata AC2=378
You can access the anonymized microdata of the Birth Statistics up to the last year published. Microdata for estimated data are not available.
Through the INE User Service Area, interested users can request specific exploitation of information, while preserving the confidentiality of the data and signing the corresponding agreement or document.
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The methodology document can be accessed at the following link:
https://www.ine.es/en/metodologia/t20/meto_emn_en.pdf
AC3=100
Sections 10.6 to 17 of this document are considered the user-oriented quality report for this operation.
Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.
In order to manage the quality of these statistics, exhaustive controls are carried out during all process phases. Special emphasis is placed on controlling coverage, assuring that the values of the variables are valid and making sure that there are no inconsistencies in the information received.
The information is of high quality since it comes from the data recorded by the Civil Registries through the Ministry of Justice’s INFOREG and DICIREG applications. These applications have been implemented over the last few years in the national territory, reaching a high degree of implementation (by early 2024, only about 4% of births are not recorded and have to be estimated, a figure that will reach 0% with the full implementation of DICIREG in September 2025) and stability.
A strong point of these statistics is the great speed in providing reliable information on the number of births.
Users of this statistic include:
Each of these users has different needs depending on the destination and usefulness of the information they require. In particular:
Despite the progress in this statistical operation, some unmet needs are identified:
However, these needs are being progressively addressed with the rapid implementation of the DICIREG computerized system at the national level, which is scheduled for completion by September 2025. In addition, work is underway to expand the number of variables available and to provide a greater level of disaggregation of data, which will allow users to access more detailed and timely information.
The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...
On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click next link)
The information collected allows us to attend to all requests received.
The data completeness rate is 100%
R1=100%
The quality of data recording in Civil Registries, error correction, data validation, imputation of the lack of information or adjustments for delays in information reception allow for a high degree of reliability of the statistics.
Since it is a statistic based on administrative records, there are no sampling errors.
Births registered in the Civil Registries and recorded in the Ministry of Justice's INFOREG or DICIREG applications represent approximately 97% of births in Spain. This, together with corrections of delays in birth registrations, is corrected thanks to the implementation of two expansion coefficients.
A4=2.93%
Monthly, in month m, data for month m-2 are published.
As provisional and definitive data on birth statistics (Natural Population Movement) based on Birth Statistics Bulletin documents become available, estimates will be replaced by definitive data. Thus, data on births that occurred in 2023 are considered definitive from November 2024.
TP1: 45 days
TP2: 11 months
Future efforts to reduce this time lag in the future are focused on the progressive computerization of civil registries, optimization of internal processes and collaboration with other agencies.
Data dissemination is carried out in accordance with the statistics availability calendar prepared and published each year by the INE.
TP3=0 (there are no publication delays)
Under-registration coefficients are calculated and applied according to the province of registration.
Until May 2024, the estimated data were published according to province of registration. However, as of this date, the estimated data are published according to province of residence in order to improve the comparability of the provisional data with the definitive data from previous years.
On occasions, the residence of the pregnant mother is not always well informed in INFOREG/DICIREG, so in these cases, the province of residence has been imputed according to the place where the registration was made.
The statistics are comparable throughout the period. There has been no methodological break
CC2 = 93 months
This statistic is consistent with the Birth Statistics.
The coherence between the variables is contrasted in all phases of the statistical process.
As a statistic based on an administrative record, there is no additional burden to the informants.
The estimate of the budget credit necessary to finance the Monthly Birth Statistics provided for in the 2024 Annual Program is 38.53 thousand euros.
To increase production efficiency, the complete computerization of civil registries, the improvement of interoperability between the different databases and the improvement of predictive statistical models will be of great help.
The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).
This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow: routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.
Two types of data coexist in the project:
Estimated data are reviewed and updated in each monthly publication.
A6-RMAR=0.22%
Calculated based on the total of the last 12 months
The original source of the data is the registration of births in the civil registries. For several years, the Ministry of Justice has launched an application known as Inforeg, for recording the different registry entries, including births. This application has been implemented in the Civil Registries although not all use it (around 4% of births registered in Spain are not recorded in Inforeg).
From October 2021, Inforeg begins to be gradually replaced by a new application, DICIREG, which should ideally be implemented throughout Spain within approximately three years.
The INE receives a monthly file, on the first working day of each month, which includes all births recorded up to the previous day.
To carry out these statistics, information is obtained from:
Multiple analyses of data evolution coherence are carried out
Firstly, the INE verifies the reception, reading and processing of the files received from the Ministry of Justice. The data is then purified and validated. The expansion coefficients are then applied. Births recorded in Inforeg for each week in each geographic area are calculated by applying two expansion coefficients. The first coefficient is for undercoverage correction of the original Inforeg and Dicireg data. It is an expansion factor that historically relates births recorded and occuring in each geographical area. The second factor corrects for the delay in data recording. This coefficient is used for the most recent three months published. They are updated and corrected with each new publication of results.
The last stage before information dissemination is aimed at analyzing the aggregate information and verifying the consistency of the information offered.
Quality Indicator 'Imputation rate' A7=0%.
No seasonal adjustments are applied.