About the product
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to assist countries in improving of their civil registration and vital statistics systems and for the establishment of such systems in countries that do not yet have them in place. It provides essential components of a civil registration system as well as the development of a vital statistics system based on civil registration described. The publication contains details on structure (centralized vs decentralized), management, operation and maintenance functions and its extension to the vital statistics systems, at the national, intermediate and local administrative levels. The handbook includes the entire range of vital events - live births, deaths, foetal deaths, marriages and dissolutions of marriage - from the civil registration and the vital statistics perspectives.
