ABSTRACT
The manual method of obtaining birth or death certificate is complex and impractical for increase in birth rate and death rate. The cost of obtaining a birth or death certificate, risk and stress of communicating with the National Population Commission (NPC) officials, loss of certificate are some of the possible problems of the manual process of obtaining birth or death certificate. Before a birth or death certificate can be issued by NPC, the birth or death must have been registered. Birth and Death registration became very important as a result of difficulties encountered while obtaining accurate population statistics essential in social services planning. It also makes sure that adequate resources and budgets are made available to meet the needs of the population at large.
The performance of the web based birth and death certificate request application was evaluated in terms of speed, accessibility, cost and capacity. The result confirmed that the proposed web based birth and death certificate request application will be able to assist government officials in terms of having a easily and globally accessible system, speeding up the process of issuing birth or death certificates, it eliminates having certificate in paper form, it reduces stress of communicating with government officials and finally reduces the cost of obtaining certificates.
This study therefore aims to address the challenges faced by citizens in obtaining birth or death certificates from NPC by using a web based birth and death certificate request application. The implementation of the proposed system is achieved using MySql for the database,PHP for programming the interface and Bootstrap for the User Interface.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CERTIFICATION…II
DEDICATION…....III
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS…………………………………..IV
ABSTRACT……...VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………….VII
LIST OF FIGURES...................X
LIST OF TABLES.....................XI
CHAPTER ONE 1
INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY 1
1.2 PROBLEM DEFINITION/STATEMENT 5
1.3 JUSTIFICATION OF STUDY 6
1.4 AIM AND OBJECTIVES 6
1.5 OBJECTIVES 6
1.5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 7
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 8
1.7 CONSTRAINTS OF THE STUDY 8
1.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY 9
1.10 PROJECT LAYOUT 9
CHAPTER TWO 11
LITERATURE REVIEW 11
2.1 BIRTH REGISTRATION 11
2.2 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND LEGAL IDENTITY 12
2.3 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO SERVICES 13
2.4 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND CHILD PROTECTION 15
2.5 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BIRTH REGISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT PLANNING 17
2.6 BENEFITS OF BIRTH REGISTRATION 18
2.7 LIMITATIONS AND CHALLENGES 19
2.8 STRATEGIC APPROACH TO PROMOTING BIRTH REGISTRATION IN NIGERIA 20
2.8.1 HISTORY OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE 21
2.8.2 BIRTH CERTIFICATE 23
2.8.3 WHO MAY REQUEST FOR A BIRTH CERTIFICATE 23
2.9 DEATH REGISTRATION 24
2.9.1 SITUATION OF DEATH REGISTRATION IN AFRICA 26
2.9.2 Origins of death registration 27
2.9.2.1 Death registration in the United States 30
2.10 DEATH CERTIFICATE 32
2.11 E-CERTIFICATE 33
2.11.1 WHAT AN E-CERTIFICATE OFFERS 33
2.12 RELATED WORKS 34
2.13 CHAPTER SUMMARY 36
CHAPTER THREE 38
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 38
3.1 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING 38
3.2 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 39
3.2 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS 40
3.3 NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS 42
3.4 USE CASE DIAGRAM 43
3.5 DATA FLOW DIAGRAM 46
3.5.1 CONTEXT DIAGRAM 47
3.6 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM 48
3.7 ENTITY-RELATIONAL MODEL 49
3.8 DATABASE DESIGN 50
3.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY 58
CHAPTER FOUR 59
SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND DOCUMENTATION 59
4.1 CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE USED 59
4.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 59
4.2.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 59
4.2.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS 60
4.3 MODULES EXPLANATION (DOCUMENTATION) 60
4.4 USER’S MANUAL 61
4.4.1 RUNNING THE SYSTEM 61
4.5 IMPLEMENTATION MODEL 63
4.5.1 COMPONENT DIAGRAM 63
4.6 SCREEN SHOTS 69
CHAPTER FIVE 85
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONN AND RECOMMENDATION 85
5.1 SUMMARY 85
5.2 CONCLUSION 85
5.3 RECOMMENDATION 86
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 3.1 Use Case Diagram of Proposed System 44
Figure 3.2 Context Diagram for Proposed System 46
Figure 3.3 E-R Diagram of Proposed System 47
Figure 3.4 Entity-Relational Model of Proposed System 48
Figure 4.1 Component diagram of Birth and Death Certificate Request...........74
Figure 4.2 Register Page.............79
Figure 4.3 Login Page.................80
Figure 4.4 Home Page................81
Figure 4.5 Applicant Page...........82
Figure 4.6 Birth Certificate Page83
Figure 4.7 Death Certificate Page......84
Figure 4.8 Admin Panel Page....85
Figure 4.9 Admin Edit Page.......86
Figure 4.10 Admin Login Page..87
Figure 4.1 1 Payment Page.........88
Figure 4.12 Pdf birth Certificate Page89
Figure 4.13Pdf Death Certificate Page......................90
Figure 4.14 View Applicant and Proof Page..............91
Figure 4.15 Email Page...............92
LIST OF TABLES
Table 3.1 : ADMINS TABLE 49
Table 3.2 : APPLICANT TABLE 50
Table 3.3 : BIRTH 52
Table 3.4 : DEATH 55
Table 4.1 : DESCRIPTION OF ELEMENTS OF COMPONENT DIAGRAM..79
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