Expert Group Meeting on Methodology and Lessons Learned to Evaluate the Completeness and Quality of Vital Statistics Data from Civil Registration

KOSTAT- UNPD Joint Work Project

  • Statistics Korea and the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, as part of a joint technical cooperation agreement, organized an Expert Group Meeting successfully. It was titled “Methodology and Lessons Learned to Evaluate the Completeness and Quality of Vital Statistics Data from Civil Registration”. It was held at the United Nations Population Division in New York from November 3 to 4, 2016.
  • Additionally, in accordance to MOU made by Statistics Korea and the United Nations Population Division, “Capacity building in demographic estimation and analysis for the Republic of Korea through fellowships and on-the job training” is being carried out. A government statistician from KOSTAT was sent to UNPD for a year to practice population statistics training including future population projections.
  • The purpose of the Expert Group Meeting was to examine (a) the state of vital statistics based on civil registration with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries, (b) to review the state-of-knowledge with analytical methods to evaluate the proportion of actual vital events that are registered on the civil registration of vital statistics (CRVS) system and the quality of vital statistics collected through civil registration and (c) to review lessons learned from local and international experiences in applying these methods to various settings. In the Expert Group Meeting, 52 experts participated and presented 26 papers. Ji-Youn Lee, director of Statistics Korea and Sun-Jae Hwang, professor of Chungnam National University co-presented “Enhancing Korean infant mortality statistics by linking administrative data and surveys”.

The Expert Group Meeting on Methodology and Lessons Learned to Evaluate the Completeness and Quality of Vital Statistics Data from Civil Registration

  • Session 1. Opening of the meeting
  • Session 2. Analytical methods to evaluate the completeness and quality of birth registration
  • Session 3. Analytical methods to evaluate the completeness and quality of death registration (part 1)
  • Session 4. Analytical methods to evaluate the completeness and quality of death registration (part 2)
  • Session 5. Record linkages and validation studies to evaluate the completeness and quality of vital registration (part 1)
  • Session 6. Record linkages and validation studies to evaluate the completeness and quality of vital registration (part 2)
  • Session 7. Criteria used to evaluate the quality of mortality data from CRVS
  • Session 8. Summary and conclusions

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