Assessing Inequalities in the Registration of Births in Samoa
(Country Assessments and Strategies, 2025)
The report of inequalities in birth registration in Samoa highlights several key findings:
- Children under one year have the lowest registration rates.
- Geographical disparities: Children in remote districts and on the island of Savai’i are less likely to be registered.
- Socioeconomic factors: Lower registration rates are associated with mothers having lower educational attainment and families in the lowest wealth quintile.
- Other factors: No significant impact was found for the child’s sex, religion, household head’s sex or education, child’s disability status, or whether parents live with the child.
This report suggests several interventions to improve birth registration rates, such as economic incentives, better coordination with birthing centers, partnerships with community organizations, mobile registration services, and improving the registration system’s infrastructure.
This kind of assessment is vital for identifying and addressing disparities in civil registration systems, ensuring that all individuals are included and can access their rights and benefits.
Assessing Inequalities in Registration of Births and Deaths in Bhutan
(Country Assessments and Strategies, 2025)
This report presents findings from an inequality assessment of births and deaths in Bhutan between 2017 and 2022, based on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) data from the Bhutan Civil Registration System. Developed in collaboration with ESCAP and the Department of Civil Registration and Census, National Statistics Bureau (NSB) of Bhutan, the report was strengthened through expert input, technical support and feedback provided by ESCAP. Key national stakeholders—including officials from the Ministry of Health, the Department of Civil Registration and Census, and the Department of Immigration—also contributed significantly to the development of the report.
Towards Inclusivity: Development of Civil Registration in Indonesia 2019-2023
(Report, 2025)
Towards Inclusivity: The Development of Civil Registration in Indonesia 2019–2023 illustrates disparities in population administration through the levels of civil registration completeness across various regions, social, and economic groups. The results indicate that underdeveloped areas and impoverished communities have significantly lower registration rates compared to other groups. This study also identifies key drivers, such as civil registration service programs, and major barriers, including characteristics of vulnerable populations, poverty, and unemployment. The primary recommendations include improving the civil registration service system down to the village/sub-district level and enhancing cross-sector collaboration to accelerate the achievement of universal civil registration.
Assessment, Analysis and Redesign of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Processes in Fiji
(Country Assessments and Strategies, 2024)
This report documents the work led by CRVS stakeholders in Fiji to assess, analyze and redesign civil registration business processes, including registration of births, deaths, marriage, divorce, change of name and the production of vital statistics. The key recommendations emerging from this assessment propose strategies to realize a more resilient, user-friendly and universal CRVS system in Fiji. Key to achieving this is the continued digital transformation of the CRVS system and its integration with the nation-wide digital FIJI programme which aims to increase interoperability between government platforms and facilitate improved service delivery to the population.
It is hoped that this assessment will inform the development of a strategic roadmap which outlines specific action areas to streamline and simplify civil registration business processes, to ensure that all vital events in Fiji are registered. The time dedicated by CRVS stakeholders in Fiji during extensive consultations and workshops is testament to their commitment to ensuring that every Fijian is in the picture.
Inequality Assessment for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics LAO PDR
(Advocacy Materials, Country Assessments and Strategies, 2023)
The report seeks to provide a picture of the Lao PDR’s civil registration completeness and the associated inequalities, that lay out possible key drivers behind the low birth registration. This will allow the country to work towards solving these remaining challenges to really get ‘every one’ in the picture.
The content of the report was derived from a review of available data, and the analysis of birth registration inequality relied on the two most recent household Lao Social Statistics Surveys conducted by the LSB. Discrepancies and challenges in the process of data compilation and analysis arose and highlighted the need for more investment of time and effort to address them.
Fiji CRVS Inequality Assessment Report: Assessing Inequalities in Registration of Births and Deaths in Fiji
(Country Assessments and Strategies, 2023)
Fiji is the first country, to our knowledge, to embark upon an in-depth quantitative inequality assessment, examining differentials by sex, age, ethnicity, and mother’s marital status. Information obtained from this assessment will be used to inform future research and policy interventions to bridge gaps in registration between different population groups in the country. This assessment primarily drew upon direct calculations of both registered and estimated births and deaths sourced from the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) records and census enumeration data provided by The Fiji Bureau of Statistics (FBoS). Birth registration completeness disaggregated by various socioeconomic characteristics as outlined in the 2021 Fiji Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), was also consulted.
- Associated Policy Brief: Economic incentives have large positive impacts on birth registrations in Fiji (there are discussions on key messages, the problem, solutions through economic incentives and recommendations).
- Assessing Inequalities in Registration of Births and Deaths
Assessing inequalities in registration of births and deaths
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Assessment, analysis and redesign of civil registration and vital statistics processes - Maldives: report on the implementation of stage 1: assessment, analysis, and redesign of the CRVS
(Country Assessments and Strategies, 2022)
This report documents the results of the work of the Maldives Core Team in the implementation of the "Assessment, analysis, and redesign" stage of the CRVS System Improvement Framework. Using the methodology and the tools defined by the CRVS System Improvement Framework, the Core Team, supported by a Country Coordinator and a Senior Adviser, organised a range of online and in-person consultations to apply the Framework tools. The consultations enabled the Core Team to provide detailed descriptions of existing birth and death registration business processes, analyse aspects of the processes affecting performance, and design a vision for improving registration business processes, overcoming performance bottlenecks, and increasing overall efficiency.
The report is organised into four distinct parts. The first part introduces the key characteristics of the Maldives CRVS system, as well as background information on the CRVS System Improvement Framework and the methodology for implementing the Framework implementation in the context of Maldives CRVS business processes. The second part of the report provides a detailed description of birth and death registration business processes as presently operated in Maldives. The third part of the report documents the analysis conducted by the Core Team to determine existing business processes, performance bottlenecks and their root causes, as well as redesign suggestions and how best to prioritize improvements. Finally, the fourth part of the report envisions the processes that would emerge after improvement policies are implemented.
Guidelines for estimating completeness of civil registration of vital events
(Manuals and Training Materials, 2022)
These Guidelines have been prepared to support national statistical offices, ministries of health, and other relevant government and non-government agencies to better estimate the completeness of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, in particular, the completeness of birth and death registration.