This set of principles and recommendations provides guidance on establishing a functioning system for collecting, processing and disseminating vital statistics; improving sources of vital statistics, primarily the functioning of the civil registration system and its components; and the role of complementary sources of vital statistics, such as population censuses, household surveys and public-health records.
Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3
| Service line: | Evidence-based policy |
| Category: | Demographic and Social Statistics |
| Created by: | Statistics Division |
| Type: | Capacity Development Tool |
| Format: | Guidelines |
| Language(s): | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish |
| Location: | https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/principles/M19Rev3en.pdf |
| Publication: | 2014 |
| Target audience: | National Statistical offices, Civil Registration authorities, Government practitioners |
| Availability: | Web accessible/downloadable |