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Handbook for Registration: Procedures and Standards for Registration, Population Data Management and Documentation
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This handbook describes how to set up registration activities for refugees and asylum-seekers, what data to collect, and how to manage and protect the information gathered.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Policies and Protocols for the Release and Archiving of Individual Records
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual offers guidelines for designing policies to protect the confidentiality of individual information contained in vital records and suggests alternative methods for storage and protection.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Preparation of a Legal Framework
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides the legal underpinnings of a civil registration and vital statistics system.
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Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Series M No. 19/Rev.3
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual provides an extensive examination of the role of population registers in the context of vital statistics and civil registration. -
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Monitoring the Building Blocks of Health Systems: A Handbook of Indicators and their Measurement Strategies
[World Health Organization]This book is structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six core components or “building blocks." -
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Handbook on Civil Vital Registration and Statistics Systems Management, Operation and Maintenance
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides guidance to countries to improve their civil registration and vital statistics systems.
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Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Series M No. 19/Rev.3
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual provides a set of principles and recommendations on establishing a functioning system for collecting, processing, and disseminating vital statistics. -
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Handbook on Data Quality Assessment Methods and Tools
[European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Union]This book aims to facilitate a systematic implementation of data quality and assessments in the European Statistical System, and presents the most important assessment method for doing so.
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ESS Handbook for Quality Report, 2014 Edition
[European Commission, Statistical Office of the European Union]This book is the annual update of the European Statistical System's guidelines for the preparation of comprehensive quality reports commonly performed by Eurostat or national statistical offices.
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Handbook for Doctors on Cause-of-death Certification: Resources and Tools 1
[University of Melbourne]This handbook is designed for doctors to consult rapidly to easily to fill out death certificates.
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Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems, Studies in Methods. Series F, No. 84
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook is an important tool to develop, operate, and maintain a coordinated and interoperable environment between civil registration and vital statistics.
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Handbook of Vital Statistics Systems and Methods, Volume 1: Legal, Organisational and Technical Aspects, United Nations Studies in Methods, Glossary, Series F, No. 35
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook was developed to give special attention to the registration of vital events.
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Digital Identity Guidelines
[National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce]A comprehensive analysis of digital identity services.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems: Computerization
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides suggestions for activities to tailor computerization of the civil registration system. While technologically outdated, some of the underlying principles for ICT remain valid.
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Handbook on European Data Protection Law - 2018 edition
[European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights]The handbook provides an overview of the EU’s and the Council of European (CoE) instruments' applicable legal frameworks. It also explains key case law, summarising major rulings of both the Court of -
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Difference Between Birth Certificate and Certificate of Live Birth
[The Law Dictionary]This short piece provides a practical description of the difference between a birth certificate and a certificate of live birth. -
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The Health System Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual
[United States Agency for International Development]The HSSA is a comprehensive tool to diagnose the performance of health systems and to capture system-wide information to better inform health sector planning. -
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ICD-10, Instruction Manual, Part 9
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics]This is a detailed and comprehensive instruction manual for tabulation of mortality statistics.
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APAI-CRVS Assessment Guidelines and Tools
[Africa Programme for Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics]The tool and guidelines have been prepared both in English and in French to assist countries in undertaking an assessment of their civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems.
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Training Course on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Systems: Instructor's Manual
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This course provides information to epidemiologists, statisticians, demographers, and other public health workers about vital statistics data gathered from a national civil registration system.
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Training Course on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Systems: Participant's Notes
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This course provides information to epidemiologists, statisticians, demographers, and other public health workers about vital statistics data gathered from a national civil registration system.
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Rapid Assessment of National Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems
[World Health Organization]This tool helps to quickly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a current CRVS system before undertaking a detailed CRVS review.
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Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems, Developing Information, Education and Communication
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook offers guidance on how to design and carry out information, education, and communication activities to improve programs for civil registration and vital statistics agencies.
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Guidelines and Template for Developing a Vital Statistics Report
[Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)]This document is a guidance tool for producing vital statistics reports from civil registration systems. It is intended especially for countries that have little or no prior experience with preparing -
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Vital registration and under-reporting of maternal mortality in Jamaica
[International Journal of Gynaecological Obstetrics]This peer reviewed article seeks to identify why vital registration under-reports maternal deaths in Jamaica.
Our Resource Library provides access to curated resources related to CRVS systems, including research, tools, publications, CRVS eLearning course, our Expert Talks video series, and a glossary of terms and definitions.
A CRVS system is one that connects relevant data from the civil registry and the health information system for the purpose of producing vital statistics. In order to function well, CRVS systems depend on common elements. These are featured under a unique section of our library. Examples include resources that focus on training, assessments and evaluations, identity management, data security and privacy, information and communications technology, and more.