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The Power of Death Statistics to Improve Lives
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Routine death statistics offer important data to identify new conditions and track success in reducing disease. Learn more from Prabhat Jha in this interview. -
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Capturing Cause of Deaths Outside Health Facilities Through Verbal Autopsies
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]In this video, Philip Setel of Vital Strategies describes how verbal autopsy can improve policy-making and planning in developing countries. -
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How Verbal Autopsies in India Helped to Inform Decision-making in Health Care
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Find out how verbal autopsies in India helped to inform decision-making in health care in this interview with Prabhat Jha of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. -
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The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008)
[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]The Paris Declaration (2005) is a practical, action-oriented roadmap to improve the quality of aid and its impact on development. The Accra Agenda for Action (2008) takes stock of progress and sets -
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Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
[United Nations Statistics Division]This publication lays out the principles to ensure that official statistics can respond to changes in the political, economic, social, and technological environments for a statistical agency.
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Principles Governing International Statistical Activities
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page lists the principles and good practices endorsed by the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities. -
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International Statistical Institute (ISI) Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms
[International Statistical Institute]The ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms translates more than 3,500 statistical terms into 31 languages. -
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Glossary of Key Information Security Terms
[National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce]This glossary provides a central resource of terms and definitions most commonly used in National Institute of Standard and Technology information security publications.
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Production of a Vital Statistics Guide, Rev. 1
[United Nations Economic Commision for Asia and the Pacific]The purpose of this Guide and the files it accompanies, hereinafter referred to as the resource kit, is to enable the production of vital statistics reports, primarily using civil registration data
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