Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the Philippines

Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the Philippines2017 International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals Statistics 4-6 October 2017 The Peninsula Manila, Philippines AURORA G. TALAN-REOLALAS Chief Statistical Specialist Vital Statistics Division Civil Registration Service
Republic of the Philippines
SDG Indicators from potential source (CRVS)
Way Forward
The Peninsula Manila, Philippines
The Philippine Statistical Act of 2013
Article 6 (e) of RA 10625 mandates the PSA to carry out, enforce and administer civil registration functions in the country as provided for in Act No. 3753, the Law
on Registry of Civil Status
Under Section 2 of Act No. 3753, the Civil Registrar General is empowered to
prepare and issue implementing rules and regulations of laws on civil
registration. These rules and regulations provide standard procedures which
every LCRO in the country should strictly follow in registering all vital events, court
decrees and legal instruments.
implementation of the
It shall plan, develop,
national accounts.
PSA Mandates
Carry out, enforce &
registration:
provided through decree or
The occurrences considered as vital events
are live birth, death, fetal death, marriage,
divorce, annulment of marriage, judicial
separation of marriage, adoption,
Carried out primarily
meet the needs of its users • High coverage and completeness
• Low levels of missing data
• Low usage of ill-defined categories used as cause of death
• Low numbers of improbable classifications
• Consistency between cause of death and general mortality
Accurate
• Produced in a number of different media formats
• Provide information about the data (i.e. collection method, definitions, manner of presentation, potential for error, etc.)
• Provide a response user service to distribute data, clarify queries and engage with data providers
Accessible
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PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY
• Window-based software available for use by the Offices of the Local Civil Registrars and other institutions
• Data entry is easy, allows accurate coding of items
• Features of PhilCRIS are data management and maintenance of the local civil registry database.
DVSS
• DVSS was developed to improve the decentralized processing of the civil registry documents and generation of vital statistics at the PSA Regional and Provincial Offices.
• Aims to generate vital statistics at the city/municipal, provincial, regional and national level, and facilitate data conversion specifically on the generation of indices for copy issuance
CRVS Systems and Practices
• Consistency check of entries
Data Quality Checks
• coverage in a year is based on the year of occurrence and not the year of registration,
• Disaggregated by age, sex, lowest geographical level (city/municipal)
• reported on a yearly basis
• availability of unpublished tables generated upon request
Reporting
Practices
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• Conduct of national workshop on civil registration (NWCR), national convention for solemnizing offices (NCSO), seminars and trainings
• Conduct of ICD-10 Training for health professionals, medical records, PSA staff and local civil registrars
Capacity Building
• Facebook fan page “PSA_Civil Registration and Vital Statistics” launched in February 2015
• CRVS jingle selected in February 2016
• Some Local Civil Registrars conduct mobile registration in schools, hard-to-reach areas, for special groups (e.g. Muslims, Indigenouse Peoples)
• Celebrates Civil Registration month every February
Advocacy Campaigns &
• Philippine Association of Civil Registrars
• Regional Association of Civil Registrars
Coordination
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PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY
Proclamation No. 1106 issued by His Excellency, Pres. Benigno Simeon C. Aquino declaring
the years 2015 to 2024 as Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Decade on 20 August 2015
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Maternal mortality rate
Adolescent birth rate
Infant mortality rate
ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns
and children under 5 years of age, with all
countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at
least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under 5
mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live
births
mortality from non-communicable diseases
promote mental health and wellbeing
SDGs Goals and Targets
and injuries from road traffic accidents
3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and
reproductive health-care services, including for
family planning, information and education, and
the integration of reproductive health into national
strategies and programmes
deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals
and air, water, and soil pollution and
contamination
GDP caused by disasters, including water-related
disasters, with the focus on protecting the poor and
people in vulnerable situations
related death rates everywhere
birth registration
Moving
Forward
Implementation
Improvement
Cascading of
Institutionalization of the
of death, civil registrars and other
CRVS stakeholders
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Moving forward…
QUALITY
DATA
involves computerization of civil registry
(CR) operation of the PSA .
Design to collect, access store, maintain
and manage CR documents and the
specimen signatures of all
city/municipality registrars using imaging
QUALITY
DATA
from 2015 Census

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