Monthly Birth Registrations in Victoria, Australia

Hospitals and midwives must notify the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria (BDM) of births within 21 days. Births are counted in the month they are registered, which may differ from the month they occurred. The dataset is provided by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly birth registration trends based on the reported monthly counts.
• Modeling administrative reporting lags based on the description that registration month may differ from birth month.
• Assessing regional birth rates over time using the wider data sets available for purchase with specific criteria.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official state registry (Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria).
• Dataset is available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-04-08 23:38:55.301397).

Limitations

• Row count and column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

Collection Method

Administrative notifications from hospitals and midwives.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 23:38:55.301397; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia