Definition: Civil registrar

Category: Social statistics

Official charged with the responsibility for civil registration of vital events in a well defined area (an entire country, a county, district, municipality, parish etc.) and for recording and reporting information on those vital events for legal and statistical purposes. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_84_EN.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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