LOGO CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS SYSTEM OF VIET NAM

Civil Registration and Vital statistic system in Viet Nam Civil register and Vital statistic systems Ministry of Public security General Statistic Office Ministry of Justice Ministry of Health

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE  Legal framework  Laws on Statistics  Decision issued by Prime Minister (in 2010) on National Statistical indicators system  Decision issued by Prime Minister (in 2012) approving the program of National statistic surveys

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE  Ministry of Planning and Investment makes economic – social development plan based on population data which is public and estimated by GSO  Population data is basis to allocate budget for provinces

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE  Sources of Data  Annual population change survey provide indicator on population, birth, death, migration (sample survey)  Census conducted in 1979, 1989, 1999, The 2009 census provided population data to communal

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE  Public data  Socio – economic report monthly, quaterly including number of population, labor force, employment and unemployment  Year book  The 2009 census data warehouse  Annual Population survey data warehouse from :  Processing in build meta data for all survey and census

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE  3. Advantages - If all the events are registered adequately, this documents will provide an information with higher sufficient and correction than enumeration in surveys. - The information good for both law and statistics purposes.

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE 4. Infrastructure  Central level: GSO  Provincial level : PSO  District level: DSO  Data save by hard copy and data file. 5. Coordination: GSO coordinating with all of Ministries to aggregate, check, and disseminate National statistic indicator system manually

GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE 6. Quality assessment and assurance:  Pre-test and pilot before conducting survey  Collecting information at household is monitored by central, provincial, district statistical offices.  Processing by Informatics centrals  Verifying after the survey complete  Supporting by international consultants in designing sample, assessing designing sample error, information collecting error.

Ministry of Justice Company Logo  Legal framework -Decree 158/2005 issued by Government on civil registration and management. -Decree 06/2012 amending and supplementing a number of articles of the decrees on civil registration, marriage and family and certification Circular issued by Ministry of Justice guide lining statistical profession in justice branch. -Draft Law on Civil status (expected to be passed by National Assembly in October, 2014)

Ministry of Justice Company Logo  Sources data - Registry books - Separate electronic civil status databases of different provinces.

Responsibility Art 1 – Decree 158/2005: 1. Civil status means fundamental events determining the personal status of a person from the time he/she is born to the time he/she dies. 2. Civil registration means that competent state agencies: a/ Certify the events of birth; marriage; death; child adoption; guardianship; recognition of father, mother, child; change, correction, supplement, adjustment of civil status; re-determination of gender; re- determination of ethnicity; b/ Based on decisions of competent state agencies, write in civil status books the events of determination of father, mother, child; change of citizenship; divorce; annulment of illegal marriage; termination of child adoption. Ministry of Justice

 Coordination -With Ministry of Health: to build Circular to guide issuing Notice of birth paper, draft Master plan for developing the health information system. -Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs: Provide data on: give birth register, death register, baby changing nationality -General Statistic Office: send aggregation report (with indicator in National Statistic Indicator System) -Unicef: UNICEF support for assessing giving birth register situation in some area Ministry of Justice

 Quality assessment and assurance -MOJ printing and public across the country and oversea representative agency to use and keep long -Checking and monitoring POJ, DOJ -Building e - database and applying IT in CR system. -Complete legislation on civil registration: finalizing the draft law on Civil registration.

 Responsibility - Management and collecting resident population in administrative unit - Immigration and Out-migration  Source of data: use for management. No public  Coordination with GSO conducting the 2009 census Ministry of Public Security

 Prime Minister promulgated the Decree on national population database and is now in the process of collecting the necessary data.  Coverage: all population Ministry of Public Security

Ministry of Health  Population and family plan Agency colleting information on: live birth, death, infant death, infant mortality, maternal death….  Data source keep at central, provincial, district level  Population was public annually after GSO verifying  Coordinating with GSO collecting indicator: give birth, death, maternal death

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