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Physician's Handbook on Medical Certification of Death
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]While this handbook is oriented toward the U.S. vital statistics system, the information on certification of medical information is universally relevant. -
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Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency, Sixth Edition
[National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics]While this book is written about the U.S. federal statistical agencies, the four principles of relevance, credibility, trust, and independence are common to all statistical agencies. -
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CRVS Digitalization Guidebook
[Africa Programme for Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics]This guidebook responds to the need expressed by countries in Africa to develop effective, scalable, and sustainable CRVS systems and to maximize the impact of ICT investments.
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Handbook for Registration: Procedures and Standards for Registration, Population Data Management and Documentation
[United Nations Refugee Agency]This handbook offers information on how to set up registration activities for refugees and asylum-seekers, what data should be collected, and how to manage and protect the information gathered.
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Handbook of Vital Statistics Systems and Methods, Volume 1: Legal, Organizational and Technical Aspects
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook offers the historical evolution of civil registration and vital statistics.
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Toward Universal Birth Registration: A Systemic Approach to the Application of ICT
[Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations Children's Fund]This publication provides a checklist for the legal, administrative, and technological requirements for the use of information and communications technology (ICT) for birth registration. -
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Strengthening Civil Registration and Vital Statistics for Births, Deaths and Causes of Death: Resource Kit
[World Health Organization]This book offers a resource kit for improving civil registration and vital statistics to improve capabilities to measure development progress.
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Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data
[United Nations Statistics Division]This handbook provides information on the use of statistical methods for the collection and analysis of data pertaining to fertility and mortality.
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Improving the Quality and Use of Birth, Death and Cause-of-death Information: Guidance for a Standards-based Review of Country Practices
[World Health Organization]This book provides guidance on how to systematically evaluate the quality and functioning of civil registration and vital statistics systems.
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Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Special Publication (NIST SP) - 800-122
This publication provides in-depth information on user identification and authentication procedures.
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Women, Business and the Law, 2016
[World Bank Group]This report draws attention to gender disparities that hinder prosperity and undermine national competitiveness, including the implications of lack of identity credentials for women.
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Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
[Zed Books and Open Society Justice Initiative]Millions of people living in Africa are not recognized as citizens. As such, they cannot get their children registered at birth, access state health services, work without a permit, or vote. This book -
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Use of Community Health Data for Shared Accountability: Guidance
[Measure Evaluation]This is a guidance for practice document on how to use health data to be more responsible and accountable to communities for their health status. This document is designed for community leaders -
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Innovative Tools and OpenHDS for Health and Demographic Surveillance on Rusinga Island, Kenya
[BioMed Central Research Notes]This article describes the testing of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in a community in Kenya. -
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Medical Certification of Cause of Death
[Medical Journal, Armed Forces India ]This article provides compelling justification for the importance of accurate reporting of causes of death. -
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Improving Public Health Information: A Data Quality Intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
[World Health Organization]This article assesses the results of the effort to improve health information in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness
[PLOS Medicine]This article discusses the evaluation of 234 variants of death distribution methods in three different validation environments, and demonstrates the application of optimal variants.
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Age Adjustment Using the 2000 Projected U.S. Population
[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]This statistical note describes several sets of age-adjustment weights based on the year 2000 projected U.S. population. -
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Issues in the Use of Administrative Records for Statistical Purposes
[Statistics Canada]The article discusses obstacles to greater use of administrative records, as well as concern regarding information protection and record linkage.
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Interim Measures for Meeting Needs for Health Sector Data: Births, Deaths, and Causes of Death
[The Lancet]This article discusses improvements in measuring vital statistics. It also points to the urgent need to meet challenges for accurate vital statistics.
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The Way Forward
[The Lancet]This article discusses the need to improve vital statistics in low-income and lower-income countries. It also provides recommendations for improving civil registration with the aim of enhancing vital
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The Editing of Statistical Data: Methods and Techniques for the Efficient Detection and Correction of Errors and Missing Values
[Statistics Netherlands]This article gives a brief overview of data editing methodology. The article is behind a paywall for non-members.
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A Short-cut Method for Estimating Death Registration Completeness in Destabilized Populations
[Mathematical Population Studies]This article proposes a simple method for evaluating death registration completeness during intercensal periods. Applications are made to data from South Korea and Argentina.
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Estimation of Daily Risk of Neonatal Death, Including the Day of Birth, in 186 Countries in 2013: A Vital-registration and Modelling-based Study
[The Lancet]This article presents the modelling of daily neonatal mortality risk. It estimated the proportion of deaths on the day of birth and in week 1 for 186 countries in 2013. -
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Age Standardization of Rates: A New WHO Standard
[World Health Organization]This is a discussion paper on the need for a new world standard population in light of changing mortality rates.
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.
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