This report provides a comprehensive overview of the civil registry and its link to vital statistics in Namibia. It also analyzes civil identification systems and uses cases for identity

This report explores the situation of children who are denied the right of birth registration, and the connections between birth registration and access to the rights of the child.

This report offers in-depth information on Plan International's campaign to reduce under registration of children. It examines the issues and the impact of non-registration, and highlights the

This brief offers information about UNHCR's global strategy for improving birth registration rates and issuing legal documentation to prove identity.

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 report gives an overview of the global rates of birth registration, and analyzes the barriers to access birth registration.

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

This brief offers compelling information on discriminatory practices that women in particular encounter when wanting to register a child.

This report offers objective data and evidence for building gender equality and discusses the importance of birth registration and birth certificates in improving access to services and benefits.

This report contains an overview of global rates of birth registration and the consequences and impact of non-registration on human rights. It also explores barriers and good practice examples.

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 UNCHR brief provides key arguments for the importance of community-based child protection mechanisms.

This report discusses the implications of early marriage and regional trends for this practice.

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 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 report provides findings from a large number of studies that have used medical record reviews to validate the cause of death reported.

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 issue presents data from the latest available census, such as estimated total population and number and rate of vital events for the latest available year within the past 15 years (2000-2014).

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

This report presents 2006 data on U.S. births according to characteristics such as age, live-birth order, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, education, maternal lifestyle, and health.

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