DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE BIRTH RATE MONITORING SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF MUSLIM HOSPITAL, EDE)

ABSTRACT The conventional method of birth registration is by human inspection. Manual birth registration is impractical for large increase in population. The cost of registering a child, loss of registration certificate by the parent and child, inaccurate population statistics are possible problems which inaccurate birth registration records can cause. Birth registration became an issue of utmost importance as a result of difficulties encounter while obtaining accurate population statistics essential in social services planning for any government and in ensuring that adequate resources and budgets are made available to address the needs of the populace. The use of globally accessible device for birth registration has shown great potential in this field. The performance of the An Online Birth Rate Monitoring System was evaluated in terms of accessibility, speed, cost and capacity; and the result confirmed that the proposed Online Birth Rate Monitoring System will be able to assist government officials in terms of having a globally accessible system, speeding up birth registration process, reducing cost of registering a child and capable of keeping registration details for future use. This study therefore aims to address the challenges facing National Population Commission in the area of birth registering by using Online Birth Monitoring System. The system implementation is achieved using MySQL as the backend database, and object oriented PHP as the application programming interface.