Aregistration district is, since 1 January 2016, the smallest administrative subdivision forpopulation registration in Sweden (Swedish:folkbokföring), i.e. thecivil registration of births, marriages,civil partnerships and deaths, and for the collation of census information.
Geographically, the districts correspond to theparishes of the Church of Sweden of 31 December 1999.[1][2][3] About 85% of the oldsockens corresponds with the new districts. The civil registration was originally maintained by the Church of Sweden, but since July 1991 it is administered by theSwedish Tax Agency.
The registration district is also used for registration of land ownership byLantmäteriet, for the reason that owned land was historically named after parish:neighbourhood:number, but in 2000 changed to municipality:neighbourhood:number, which caused confusion with multiple neighbourhood names in the same municipality.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)Swedish National Heritage Board, 27 January 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2016.