Institutional arrangements for civil registration and interface with vital statistics

The Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Rev. 3 (2014) (hereinafter Principles and Recommendations) was essentially designed to present vital statistics and civil registration as separate entities, with the ultimate aim of establishing, maintaining and applying the two entities as components of a coordinated and coherent system for registering and producing vital statistics. The procedures for recording births and deaths are equally important for civil registration, as a legal exercise, and for vital statistics, as a source of statistical information. As such, the tasks performed by civil registrars and by statisticians are interdependent. In addition, the emergence of interconnections between civil registration and contemporary identity management systems adds another dimension to the structure of the civil registration and vital statistics systems.

Sustainable Development Goals:

Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions