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The Importance of Registering Births, Marriages and Deaths
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]Why register births, marriages, and deaths? Nadya Kassam provides the answers in this interview. -
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Making Civil Registration Accessible to All
[Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems]This interview with Nicholas Oakeshott from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees explains why access to civil registration and vital statistics systems is critical. -
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Dictionary for Civil Registration and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]A technical dictionary of terms relating to civil registration and identification. -
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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 an analysis and checklists for the legal, administrative, and technological requirements for the use of information and communications technology for birth registration. -
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Civil Registry and Identification
[Inter-American Development Bank]This web page contains information on an IADB-financed project in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as links to publications, CRVS information by country, articles, and publications.
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Unregistered marriages – time to register calls for law reform?
[International Family Law Group]This article discusses religious marriages and the legal implications of registration practices. -
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Thai Civil Registration and Vital Statistics and Unique Identification Number Systems for Universal Health Coverage: A Case Study
[World Bank Group]The Thai civil registration (CR) system was established two centuries ago. Over the past four decades, the system has changed from a manual, paper-based registration system to a centralized -
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Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Series M No. 19/Rev.3
[United Nations Statistics Division]This manual provides an extensive examination of the role of population registers in the context of vital statistics and civil registration. -
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Demographic Surveillance Sites and Emerging Challenges in International Health
[World Health Organization]This WHO bulletin draws attention to the challenges and need for improvement in data quality for demographic surveillance systems.
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Characteristics, availability and uses of vital registration and other mortality data sources in post-democracy South Africa
[Global Health Action]This article documents mortality data sources that complement those from civil registration in post-democracy South Africa; to report on availability, limitations, strengths, and possible -
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Are inequities decreasing? Birth registration for children under five in low-income and middle-income countries, 1999–2016
[BMJ Journals]Although global birth registration coverage has improved from 58% to 71% among children under five globally, inequities in birth registration coverage by wealth, urban/rural location, maternal -
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Statistics on Marriages and Divorces, 2019
[The Singapore Department of Statistics]Statistics on Marriages and Divorces, 2019 is an annual publication presented by the Singapore Department of Statistics in two parts. Part One analyses the marriage trends, and characteristics of
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