1. Brisbane Accord Group
SESSION 15. APPLICATION AND UTILIZATION OF CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS INFORMATION
Civil Registration Process: Place, Time, Cost, Late Registration
UNITED NATIONS STATISTICS DIVISION
Workshop on the Operation of Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management Systems for South American Countries
30 October – 3 November 2017
Bogota, Colombia
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2. Civil registration information
Application within the registration system
Assessment of civil registration performance
Services to the public
Process of amending records
Time required to render services
Waiting time
Number of trips
Management decision-making and structure
Sources of reporting, training
Adjusting the process based on number of events
Planning for providing other services, such as health, vaccination
Operational workflow
Daily operations, workload
Defining priorities

3. Civil registration information
Intra-agency applications of civil registration information
Various government agencies
Professional organizations
Research institutions
Population registers and identity management systems
Interoperability – capacity of the system to develop interfaces that fully communicate among themselves in the process of operating the system - ability of different registers and databases to communicate with each other, on the basis of a unique identifier, definitions and classifications, subject to restrictions in terms of security and legal protection of confidentiality and privacy of information
Interface with national statistical system
Health and social services
Birth certificates – social services and support programmes
Death certificates – single-parent support
Identity cards for a wide variety of services
Disease registers
Legal use – registration is the basic legal tender

4. Vital statistics Application of vital statistics
Intra-agency applications of vital statistics
Prerequisite for planning and informed decision-making
2030 Agenda
Allocation of funds
Examples of vital statistics and research, particularly if a PIN is available to link across different databases, include, to name a few: distribution of women by parity (number of live births), including research into childlessness; analysis of fertility by social strata (educational attainment, labour force activity), social inequalities in life expectancy (by occupation and educational attainment), and integration of immigrants by duration of residence in receiving country
Inter-agency use and applications of vital statistics
Natality, fertility and mortality statistics used to address current issues, identify trends and project new directions of the events being considered
Social service programmes use natality data to identify geographic or demographic profiles of high fertility that affect benefits and services directed at women and infants
Natality and fertility data are used to inform plans for building or opening new schools - urban planning, in general, is highly reliant to vital statistics
Programmes for the delivery of health-care services, programme initiatives, impact analysis, evaluation and programme direction, planning and development

5. Vital statistics dissemination
Regular dissemination – one of the key principles
Monthly and/or quarterly summaries of total counts
Annual production of detailed tabulations
Recommended tabulations – in the annex of the Principles and Recommendations
Basic concepts of vital statistics tabulations
Universality – all vital events in the country for every single individual – reflected in tabulations
Tabulation by date of occurrence
Tabulation by place of occurrence and place of residence
Microdata dissemination