Status of Civil Registration system New Zealand – Adrian Jarvis

Status of Civil Registration system Background information: Organisational set up under the Department of Internal Affairs Which legislation governs CR operations – Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995, last revised in 2008. Record Management System: For Birth registrations the front end or customer experience is electronic. However the back end or registration aspect is manual. Lifedata – Axiell How are your very old records stored – scanned images

Status of Civil Registration system: completeness What is the number of yearly births estimated by the most recent census What is the number of yearly deaths estimated by the most recent census Year No of Births Registered within one year of occurrence No of late registration cases Number of Deaths Registered within one year of occurrence Number of late registration cases Estimated completes for births Estimated completes for deaths 2017  59,262  1,504  33,484  43 97.5% 99.9% 2016  59,046  1,704  31,290  39 97.2% 2015  60,557  1,817 31,728  28 97.1% 2014  56,974  1,648  31,080  122 99.6% 2013  58,381  1,603  29,658  34 97.3% Estimated completeness for Births=Number of births registered within one year of occurrence/ Number of births estimated by most recent census*100 Estimated completeness for Deaths =Births=Number of deaths registered within one year of occurrence/ Number of births estimated by most recent census*100

Recent developments Please share any recent developments that you have undertaken to improve performance of your system in: Lifedata Virtualisation – has enabled Lifedata to sit on a newer and more reliable platform that has decreased the risk of the system falling over.

Upcoming projects and priorities Te Ara Manaaki – Very large transformation programme covering all identity products, including Civil Registration.