PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Vital Statistics Administration is charged with
registering all births, deaths, and fetal deaths occuring in the State
of Maryland; issuing certified copies of birth, death, and marriage
certificates and providing divorce verifications; compiling and analyzing
vital statistics data; preparing annual estimates of the population
of Maryland by political subdivision, age, race, and sex; preparing
mandated vital statistics and population reports; and supplying vital
statistics and population data to users in the public and private
sectors.
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