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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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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.
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World Health Statistics 2020
[World Health Organization]The World health statistics 2020 report is the latest annual compilation of health statistics for 194 Member States. It summarizes trends in life expectancy and causes of death and reports on progress
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