The objective of the annual survey on births is to collect data on demographic features of live births and stillborns, as well as on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of parents.

The statistics of births are envisaged to cover all births (live births and stillborns).

The following data are collected: municipality of birth, vitality, sex, date of birth and personal number (JMBG), citizenship of child, body mass and length at birth, and gestation age as well, place of usual residence of mother, child birth order, child born within wedlock, out of wedlock or is abandoned newborn, parents’ date of birth, parents’ place of birth, parents’ citizenship, ethnicity, educational attainment, activity and occupation.