Use of Korea Resident Registration System

to Produce Timely Vital Statistics

Kyung Ae Park, Ph.D.Korea Statistics Promotion Institute

kay2@naver.com

UN World Data Forum

Jan.15-18, 2017, South Africa

• The Framework of CRVS

• Data Collection of Vital Events

- Cause of Death Statistics

- Infant, Maternal, Fetal, and Perinatal Death

• Data Release

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Contents

The Framework of CRVS

Components of CRVS

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FRR(Family Relationship Registration=Family Registration) is to register and certify changes in family relationships birth, death, and marriage, and so forth.

RR (Resident Registration) is to carry out public services through the assessment of residential relationship - RIN (Residential Identification Number) is issued

VS(Vital Statistics) is to provide basic data for policies- PCS (Population Change Survey=Vital Events Survey) is conducted based on FRR

- Covers citizens living abroad as well as within Korea

Development of CRVS: Related Acts

• Korea’s CRVS system evolved progressively relying on two

tools: (1) legal and institutional arrangement ; and (2)

digitization.

• CRVS related Acts include the Act on the Registration of

Family Relationships (2008), the Resident Registration Act

(1962), and the Statistics Act (1962).

• CMIS (Civil Management Information System) related Acts

include the Framework Act on National Informatization, the

Electronic Government Act, Acts related to Privacy

Protection and Cybersecurity, and the Personal Information

Protection Act.

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• The RR system manages information on the residency of citizens according to the 1962 RR Act

• Purposes : (1) strengthening national security; (2) providing efficient management of citizen’s residential information; and (3) providing social services to residents.

• Development stages:

- Institutionalization (1962~1986): 13 digit RIN (1975)

- Digitization(1987~2000): RR DB and Digitization RR data

- Online services (2001~): Online RR service G4C (2001),

AISS (2007), Minwon 24 (2010)6

Resident Registration System

Resident Identification Number

• RIN (Resident Identification Number): 13 digits

- Personally unique registration number that

government issues to uniquely identify each

citizen

- Contains information on date of birth, sex,

region of birth or registration

- Medium through which personal information

can be shared through the administrative

information sharing system (AISS)

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History of VS Production System

• 1962 : Established Statistics Act and the Enforcement

Decree of Statistics Act for Vital Statistics

• 1970 : Integration of FRR Items and Vital Events Items

• 1997: Statistics Korea computerized Local Data Entry

and Transmission System (1987-91:VS DB)

• 2004 : VS Data Entry System linked to FRR (2003-07: FRR DB)

• 2008: FRR linked with Web-based VS System

• 2011: FRR linked with RR System

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Parents

B. Certificate

Off-line

Individual

Off-line

Relatives

D. Certificate

Off-line

City/County/District Office

Birth Death Marriage

Divorce

Civil Registration and VS System

Migrant

On/Off line

Residential

Movement

RR System

Supreme Court

FRR System

Statistics Korea

Vital Statistics System

On-lineOn-lineOn-line

Ministry of Interior

Resident Registration

Statistics (Res. Pop)Vital Statistics

The Structure of CRVS Governance

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AISS

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Maintaining consistency of CRVS information through the synchronization of FRR and RR data

Statistics Korea

KOSIS

Data Collection and Release of Vital Statistics

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Births• Date of Registration, Sex, Name, Address, Marital status of Parents,

Date of Birth, Birth date of Parents, RIN of Parents, etc

Death• Date of Registration, Name, Address, Date of Death,

name and RIN of reporter, reporter’s relationship.

Marriage• Date of Registration, Name, Address and RIN of the Parties

Divorce• Date of Registration, Name, Address and RIN of the Parties

Common Registration Items of FRR and VS

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Registration Items of Birth

(including Certificate)

Details of the Child

• Date and Time of birth, Place of Birth, Birth Order, Plurality,

Birth Order of Plural Births, Birth Weight, Term of Gestation

Details of the Parents

• Nationality, Birth Date, Education, occupation,

(Parents) Beginning Date of Actual Marriage,

(Mother) Number of Living Children Born to the Mother,

Total Number of Children Born (if different)

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Registration Items of Death

(including Certificate)

Details of the Death

• Date and Time of Death, Place of Death, Sex, Nationality,

Education, Job, Marital Status

The Cause of Death

• the Cause of Death, Type of Death, Time and

Place of Injury, Period from disease incidence to death,

Intention of Injury

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• Details of the Persons (Marriage)

Nationality, Starting Date of Living Together,

Type of Marriage, Education, occupation

(Remarriage) Date of Dissolution of Previous Marriage

• Details of the Parties (Divorce)Type of Divorce (Mutual Consent, Court Judgment), Number of Dependents, Reason for Divorce, Education, occupation

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Registration Items of Marriage & Divorce

Citizen Cites/Counties/Districts Statistics Korea

Data

Entering

(FRR and

VS System)

Error check

B, D, M, D

Registration

form with

B. & D.

Certificate

Analyzing

Compiling

and

Editing

Who

PROCESs

MONTHLy

Within 30 days Birth, Death : 30 days

Marriage :no Time limit

Divorce: 30(90) days

Within 60 days

Monthly (Quarterly) Vital Statistics

ANNUAL

Birth, Death

(Preliminary)

Marriage,

Divorce

Birth Death

Cause of Death

Life Tables

February April August September December

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Data Processing for Vital Statistics

Releasing

Online

Submission

of entered

data

Data error check monthly & yearly

Process of CoD Statistsics

Data entry(Vital statistics

system)

Analysis(Classification,

Editing)

Aggregation(ICD-10)

Dissemination

(KOSIS, MDSS)

Medical certificate of death (post-mortem examination)

Death registration form(VS system)

Other supplement data

Data linking with 22 administrative data from 16 agencies using RIN

Coding from death condition to ICD-10 code

Determining the underlying cause of death

Tabulating by WHO ICD-10 recommendation for international comparison

News release

Annual report

On-line database(KOSIS)

Micro-data(MDSS)

(9 months after the occurrence year)

Data Collection of Infant, Maternal, Fetal,

and Perinatal Deaths

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Release of Vital Statistics

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Contents of VS Publications

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Monthly Statistics: Numbers of Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces by cities/provinces

Quarterly Statistics:-Birth: TFR by cities/provinces-Death: Age-sex-specific death rates by cities/provinces-Marriage(Divorce): Age-sex-specific marriage (Divorce) rates for nationCrude marriage(Divorce) rates by cities/provinces

Annual Statistics:- Details of births, deaths, marriages, divorces by cities/counties/districts

- Cause of Death Statistics, Life Tables, and Infant, Fetal,Perinatal Statistics by cities/provinces

References • Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility(2016)

Korea: An Integrated System of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics

• Ministry of Interior of Korea, http://www.minwon.go.kr;

http://rcps.egov.go.kr:8081

• Park, Kyung Ae (2001), “Examination on data for the estimation of

Infant mortality level,” Journal of the Korean Population

Association,” 24(1): 67-90.

• Statistics Korea

- http://kostat.go.kr, http://kosis.kr , http://mdis.kostat.go.kr

• Supreme Court of Korea

- http://efamily.scourt.go.kr

• UN Population Division’s Meeting on Vital Statistics(2016)

- http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/

events/expert- group/26/index.shtml

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