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.

This short piece provides a practical description of the difference between a birth certificate and a certificate of live birth.

This article examines wealth, urban/rural, and gender inequalities in birth certificate coverage in 94 countries.

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.

This handbook provides the legal underpinnings of a civil registration and vital statistics system.

This article argues the importance of legal identity for good governance.

This manual provides an extensive examination of the role of population registers in the context of vital statistics and civil registration.

This article examines actionable determinants of birth registration of children in Bauchi and Cross River states of Nigeria.

This article analyzes data from the 2011 Vietnamese Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), linking birth registration with childhood care and education.

This practical tool documents the special needs of child brides, and outlines the nature of the economic and social factors that reinforce the practice.

This book is structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six core components or “building blocks."

This article describes the testing of health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) in a community in Kenya.

This article provides compelling justification for the importance of accurate reporting of causes of death.

This article assesses the results of the effort to improve health information in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This article discusses the evaluation of 234 variants of death distribution methods in three different validation environments, and demonstrates the application of optimal variants.

This handbook provides guidance to countries to improve their civil registration and vital statistics systems.

This manual provides a set of principles and recommendations on establishing a functioning system for collecting, processing, and disseminating vital statistics.

This statistical note describes several sets of age-adjustment weights based on the year 2000 projected U.S. population.

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.

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.

The article discusses obstacles to greater use of administrative records, as well as concern regarding information protection and record linkage.

This article discusses improvements in measuring vital statistics. It also points to the urgent need to meet challenges for accurate vital statistics.

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

This article gives a brief overview of data editing methodology. The article is behind a paywall for non-members.

This article proposes a simple method for evaluating death registration completeness during intercensal periods. Applications are made to data from South Korea and Argentina.