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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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Indicator Metadata Registry: WHO Mortality Database
[World Health Organization]This web page provide access to the WHO mortality database.
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Coverage of Birth and Death Registration
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page provides the results of the UNSD's global monitoring of civil registration and vital statistics.
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Analysing Mortality Levels and Causes-of-death (ANACoD)
[World Health Organization]This web page has a downloadable tool for users to follow a step-by-step approach to quickly conduct a comprehensive analysis of data on mortality levels and causes of death.
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Improving Mortality Statistics in Africa: Technical Strategy 2015–2020
[United Nations Economic Commission for Africa]This web page gives access to information on the technical strategy for improving mortality statistics in Africa.
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Verbal Autopsy Standards: Ascertaining and Attributing Causes of Death
[World Health Organization]This web page provides access to the full verbal autopsy instrument and manual.
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The Web's Free 2017/18 ICD-10-CM/PCS Medical Coding Reference
[World Health Organization]ICD10Data.com is a free reference website designed for the fast lookup of all current American ICD-10-CM (diagnosis) and ICD-10-PCS (procedure) medical billing codes. -
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ICD-10 Interactive Self-Learning Tool
[World Health Organization]This web page offers access to the WHO Electronic ICD-10-training tool, which is designed for self-learning and classroom use.
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Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Knowledge Base
[United Nations Statistics Division]This web page offers access to a number of articles on civil registration and vital statistics, as well as articles that discuss country-specific CRVS issues.
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Records Management
[Wikipedia]This website provides an overview of the different aspects of records management.
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Records Managers
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Records Management
[Smithsonian Institution Archives]This website provides a comprehensive overview of records management and how records are preserved and curated.
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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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Online Glossary of Statistical Terms
[International Statistical Institute]An online glossary of statistical terms and concepts.
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.